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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a parent of a SN kid with an IEP and I’m a speech therapist with the schools. We just do t have the resources or enough staff to meet your demands. Even if you bring an advocate and get them the accommodations/service times you want-guess what, there won’t be compliance. It’s just not humanly possible.

We spend most our time on legal documentation and paperwork and very little on the kids. People falsify the minutes they give. The quality of the therapy and teaching is horrific. It’s a mess.

Then the state should just give parents money to homeschool as an alternative

Let me be frank: 
If you have a concern you want addressed for your child, do it though private therapy outside schools. No one will ever say that to you, but that is just the reality.  Forget the advocates. Save your money and time and take your kids to therapy or tutors afterschool. [/quote]

+1 I’m a special Ed teacher with one child with a 504 and another with an IEP. You can spend your time, effort and money fighting the school team, but don’t think if it gets written in the IEP that the service is being delivered with any kind of quality. The sped teachers and service providers have way too many kids on their caseloads, and often have to form groups that aren’t a great match to get to all their students. Your energy is much better spent finding quality private providers, and your child will receive more benefits from a more personalized approach. I know many will say that the schools are required to provide services no matter what, but when there are no staff and not enough time in the day/week, you can complain all you want to as many supervisors you want, nothing will change because it’s not possible.[/quote][/quote]

This is spot on having been on both sides. Much more efficient and worth it to pay for in outside. I do think a huge factor is there just isn't enough staff or subs and you cannot expect people with large caseloads or classes and not much if any planning or lunchtime to produce the optimal intervention or lesson at all times. I could go on and on.

To the person who said they should give you money to homeschool. It isn't going to happen. A start, not a solution would be funding for more teachers and smaller class sizes and more funds for decent subs so teachers aren't covering for eachother. Then we can get into how major pay increases might at least help attract more people so you could actually let go someone who is in the wrong profession. But that is all not happening right away and an advocate or lawyer will gladly take your money to ask for more goals and have them worded just right, but in the end it's about whether you get a team member who can someone have superpowers and not burnout.[/quote]

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