You can't make this stuff up

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If you can believe it Micah got a new teacher today and she seems very sweet

but after speaking with her today just as we were about to hang up she told

me she is seeing Micah from 9;:30 to 11:00 every morning. Then said I will

get in touch with you to get together in a few weeks. (I had sent a note in

this morning with Micah's profile and the wish to meet her). Long story

short. They changed one teacher for another and are STILL only giving Micah

and

hour and a half of his services. He is suppose to get two hours. As it was I

had decided to compromise and take the two hours in the morning and see how

it went. Remember I was suppose to get and hour in morning and an hour in

afternoon. But I just can't believe they woud be bold enough to pull this.

When I spoke with head of SPED on Friday she said Micah would be getting his

two

hours starting today. Now I know I am not a rocket scientist but 9:30 to

11:00 AM does not two hours make. Did someone change the math rule???? So

anyway now I have to get aggravated al over again. I am going to sit and write

a letter and send it to everyone (up the chain of command) but now I am

going to have to go to dept of ed. this is just ridiculous. You truly cannot

make this stuff up. If anyone was told that theire typical children's

classroom would only get 5 out of their six hours there would be a lynch mob.

I am

so tired of our kids being second rate citizens.

Loree

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I hope that your letter lights a fire under someone to fix the

problem..... no, the math rules haven't changed, 1.5 does NOT equal 2

(maybe they are practicing rounding up to the next whole number?????) I

guess if you don't get an immediate response from the dept of ed, you

could file a compliance complaint as well..... I think someone has to

act on those.

I have pretty lax about knowing if they were actually doing what the IEP

said for , since it seemed like she was getting what she was

supposed to. But, I guess I need to more vigilent. Today in a brief

conversation with the RSP, I found out that Friday's schedule for going

to Resource is " short " because we have short days every Friday (8-12:40

as opposed to the regular 8-2:20). I need to find out if " short " means

5 minutes less because lunch starts ealier, or if " short " means she

comes in for 10 minutes and leaves....... receives 1 hour per

day, and I know that she goes 10:45-11:45 on M-Th (check, 1 hour :-), so

they are not making up time on the other days.....I'm interested to see

what is happening on Friday's. I agree, if the typical kids days were

shortened " just because " , it would be hitting the 5 o'clock news the

same day!

, mom to (10), (8 DS), and Sammy (7)

Loree5@... wrote:

> If you can believe it Micah got a new teacher today and she seems very

> sweet

> but after speaking with her today just as we were about to hang up she

> told

> me she is seeing Micah from 9;:30 to 11:00 every morning. Then said I

> will

> get in touch with you to get together in a few weeks. (I had sent a

> note in

> this morning with Micah's profile and the wish to meet her). Long story

> short. They changed one teacher for another and are STILL only giving

> Micah and

> hour and a half of his services. He is suppose to get two hours. As it

> was I

> had decided to compromise and take the two hours in the morning and

> see how

> it went. Remember I was suppose to get and hour in morning and an hour in

> afternoon. But I just can't believe they woud be bold enough to pull

> this.

> When I spoke with head of SPED on Friday she said Micah would be

> getting his two

> hours starting today. Now I know I am not a rocket scientist but 9:30 to

> 11:00 AM does not two hours make. Did someone change the math rule???? So

> anyway now I have to get aggravated al over again. I am going to sit

> and write

> a letter and send it to everyone (up the chain of command) but now I am

> going to have to go to dept of ed. this is just ridiculous. You truly

> cannot

> make this stuff up. If anyone was told that theire typical children's

> classroom would only get 5 out of their six hours there would be a

> lynch mob. I am

> so tired of our kids being second rate citizens.

>

> Loree

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 10/3/2006 7:34:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

leslie-kerrigan@... writes:

I have pretty lax about knowing if they were actually doing what the IEP

said for

It's not that any of us are lasxc it is that it is extremely hard to find

this stuff out. They are not going to volunteer information (not normally

anyway lol) I wonder how we can find out if the IEP is being followed??

Loree

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In a message dated 10/4/2006 8:06:04 AM Central Standard Time,

Loree5@... writes:

leslie-kerrigan@... writes:

I have pretty lax about knowing if they were actually doing what the IEP

said for

It's not that any of us are lasxc it is that it is extremely hard to find

this stuff out. They are not going to volunteer information (not normally

anyway lol) I wonder how we can find out if the IEP is being followed??

Loree

HI Loree

Im a bit behind with emails ....... I know again lol

I met with Sara's, LA Sped teacher to write LA goals for her annual IEP

Wednesday and it came up in conversation that Sara was being pulled out of

Social

Studies when the Reg Ed teacher started lecture type teaching. My eye brows

raised and I started questioning her on how often a week, if this is the same

practice for Science too blah blah blah. I think she picked up on my

unhappiness and asked if this was a problem. I said well YES this practice has

now

made Sara a visitor in her Reg Ed classes. I went over the current goals we

have for Reg Ed and how carefully we placed safeguards to keep Sara in the

class. I asked her who makes the decisions for Sara to exit and she said her

paraprofessional does. I could tell from her that she wasn't to happy with this

either and she promised to be more involved in Sara's Reg Ed time. She is now

aware of how I feel and I will make sure this gets addressed at Sara IEP

meeting next week.

This system I am in is based on inclusion, they have the desire and the

heart for it but I see now they don't know how to do it, how to problem solve

wh

en a teaching method is not appropriate for Sara. We will spend a lot of time

discussing this

I have another conference Wednesday to finalize the objectives and I think

we will schedule the IEP meeting for next Friday ............. Ill keep you all

posted lol Im in IEP mode now

Kathy mom to Sara 14

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