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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course they have pre-IEP meetings in MCPS. Once I got to my school about 15 minutes early. The person in he office was new, and said oh I will take you to the room. Where everyone else on the team was sitting. They looked sheepish and said we are not ready for you yet and had the office lady escort me back to the office.  Where I waited for another 20 minutes while they all "got on the same page."
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+1. It absolutely happens in FCPS. Even if you haven't been escorted to the room, you get there in time for your appointment which is the first one in the day. All the staff is already there, but for whatever reason it takes them 20mn or more to usher you in to the room, where they all have the exact same perspective on your child's needs (and one which you happen to disagree with and substantiate with plenty of evidence). What exactly do you think they're doing during that time--shooting the breeze?
When you raise objections, one of the head honchos will speak up and say that "our position is that..."[/quote]

I don't think it's a bad thing to have a pre-meeting, but I do think some teams simply use/abuse it to get everyone to go along rather than making sure you know the recs and what the issues are. It's so funny because when I was pleased with the teacher and team, the meetings were so chill. Just a few of us in a small room and it took maybe a half hour tops. Then we got a teacher who was a really poor fit and a special educator who wasn't following the IEP and who was incapable of advocating for DC. I got vocal. From then on our IEP meetings have taken place in a larger room with a small army of people and they drag on sometimes to multiple meetings. Everyone has to shift around to try to make room for us. The principal is always there now rather than a principal designee. Once both the principal and Vice principal were there. I felt like asking "Don't you have a school to run?"

In some ways it has worked to our favor because she sees some of the crap we put up with-someone goes rogue and says something just plain rude/unprofessional and she has to correct them/reframe things. They also get their ducks in a row and follow proper procedure. They always, always pre-meet before we come (ever since I became vocal). The receptionist will say "Oh they are still meeting. Larla will come get you when they are ready for you."[/quote]

Pre-meetings are really not supposed to happen. If parents were truly equal members of the team they would be in the pre-meetings too. That's one of the things that makes parents paranoid and increases the tension even before things get started.

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