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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am going to assume your child is currently in 1st grade at a charter like Cap City or a Montessori as opposed to a language immersion charter.  (basing this on part of your post)

I wish I had some magic words to offer as we were at a school like that and in retrospect the school based assessment totally missed it and we are many years down the road and have always been trying to figure out what road we were supposed to be on.

If I was to do it all over I would get a private evaluation.  Spending the money here would have helped get the right supports in the classroom early on.   I know you are working on this - so that is a great 1st start.

Next you need to understand the whole IEP process - what the different parts of the document are supposed to represent and how to use it to support your child's learning needs.  This video was incredibly helpful for me:  https://youtu.be/q2XlAWcMAUk

This is a solid resource:
https://www.ncld.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IDEA-Parent-Guide1.pdf

I advised earlier to stay at your current school.  We left because we felt that our local DCPS would be a better place to support our child's learning needs.   What we did not understand when we did that was that when our local school could not provide for my child's learning needs, we got kicked into the broader DCPS system.   There is a teacher who posted here who shared her + experience.  That is the exception.

Example - Hearst Self Contained classroom was not adequately staffed and families needed to sue DC to get teachers with the right expertise in the classrooms.   If this is what DCPS does at Hearst - imagine what it does in other schools.   [/quote]

I’m a different poster but I want people to understand. It was not a teacher with the right expertise. It was LITERALLY A TEACHER. There was no teacher in the classroom.  It was being run by the paras.  [/quote]

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