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[quote] Yes, I felt the same way when I was at the qualification mtg and I found out they had already made up their minds about whether my son had qualified and under what category. I was just getting the interpretation of the psych educational exam at that mtg (I had the report but I am no expert and we were getting the psychologist's explanation). I found out that they had already talked to the psychologist ahead of time and had planned that he qualified and under what category.[b] That answered my question of: how could we possibly go through the entire 25+ page report and then decide whether he qualified and under what category in a mtg that was scheduled to be 1 hour long?[/b] I didn't think it was fair at all. Why would it be unprofessional for team members to disagree, in your view, SPED teacher?? 
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In my experience, this is why there are "pre meetings," if you could even call them that. It's to help ensure that the meetings do not go over. I don't think most parents appreciate how time-consuming these meetings are for teachers, who are supposed to be in class with their students. Teachers have to either spend their valuable planning time (for all the students) or get a sub to attend IEP meetings. If you are a special ed teacher, you are attending many, many of these meetings, and even gen-ed teachers must attend a fair number. And that's not even including all the time spent writing the IEP.  If meetings go 1.5 to two hours, this hurts the whole class, because subs generally do not teach lessons. Teachers can't say any of this to the parents, of course, because if they do, they are perceived as (a) uncaring, (b) lazy, or (c) something worse.

In my experience, teachers only discuss IEP details ahead of a meeting to streamline the process (i.e.--"what do you think of this speech goal for Johnny? Does it look okay?"), not to circumvent the parents' input. I can see how a parent would think this, but that's not what I've seen happening.
  
 
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