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[quote=Anonymous]Over the years working with DCPS, I've heard so many crazy things.  I'll share a few of my "favorites"

Once at a hearing, when a parent testified that DCPS had not provided them with a placement, despite a court order that they place the child in an appropriate program, the DC attorney told the hearing officer

"You just ordered us to write a notice of placement.  You didn't order us to mail it . . . "

At another hearing, again for a child who had been given no placement whatsoever, DCPS brought the IEP and report card for a different child with the same common name as proof that the child had been in school all along.  When the parent pointed out that the birthdate and address were wrong, and that the report card came from a school their child had never attended DCPS responded

"How do you really know?  I mean you're a working mother.  You're not actually with him (him being the 5 year old) during the day.  Isn't it possible that he's going to school when you're at work all day, and Grandma just didn't think to mention it?"

And then there was the hearing about bus ride lengths, where DCPS conceded that the child got on the bus before 7 and off the bus after 9, but argued that the hearing should be postponed until the family paid for an expert witness in the area of "math" to determine whether or not the bus ride lasted more than the legally allowed 90 minutes.

And finally, there was the meeting where DCPS told me to remove a goal about biting teachers from a child's IEP because the child was only biting once a week and they considered 80% to be "mastery".  I guarantee that the teachers getting bit once a week did not consider the child to have mastered the skill of not biting.

I've been to so many meetings in various capacities (teacher, administrator, parent) and while I've certainly heard parents say things I disagree with, none of them come close to the offensiveness of statements I've heard from professionals.  [/quote]

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