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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a special education teacher and this is a question I’ve honestly never been asked. I’m in Virginia. But on SOL testing days, which really are not that many days per grade level (2 days reading and 2 days math), no students are typically getting academic instruction, gen ed or special ed. The testing just takes a long part of the day (and SOLs are not timed, and most sped sztudenrs have extended time anyhow). I’ve literally had students test during all instructional parts of an entire school day and only leave for recess, lunch, specials, and we took lots of movement breaks per student needs/accommodations. You then expect a student to be receptive to instruction? Testing requires a lot of focus and stamina. It’s not realistic to expect your student to receive push-in services because there is not instruction occurring in gen ed and in special ed pull out may. It happen because of your child’s testing schedule that day. I think you are setting yourself up for an adversarial relationship with your child’s school here. No one likes the testing but it has to be done. [/quote]

Not only does she seem to want her kid pulled from recess and breaks to get in instruction on a testing day, she seems to want it to happen with a kid whose first IEP is brand new, and who hasn't had time to build a prior relationship with the child.

The things we do with a kid in the early days of their first IEP set the tone for the long term.  They establish the relationship between special ed teacher and child, and frame how the child sees their specialized instruction.   Jeopardizing that relationship by starting with an exhausted kid, who resents being pulled from recess is so short sighted. [/quote]

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