I think I am going to have to kick some butt.... Suzanne

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Thanks Suzanne, I will definitely call her. I could have sworn you gave

me the number before but can't seem to find the right email now. I

would love it if possible. Thanks so much for your support through all

this, it means allot to me. I think I am going to try to get Q's doctor

to write a similar letter to what you have, just in case this placement

turns south. Q is already saying he doesn't like it, but I still think,

for now, it's the lesser of two evils. He's just so used to not being

challenged or taught or socialized this year, it's an adjustment. But,

I am going to have do something about all the teasing and racial slurs

he's been getting lately. I know teasing is to be expected (not

tolerated though) amongst children, especially troubled kids, but the

racial crap has got to go. Bless his heart, he has no idea how to

handle situations like that & ends up crying and then it just gets

worse.

That is horrible that she filed a complaint against your doctor. Talk

about your petty, vindictive and immature BS. I cannot believe people

like that don't get fired on the spot. In fact, it's people like that,

and some of the ones I have been dealing with, that make me wonder just

how subpar, uncaring and beurocratic you have to be to become an

educator these days? Maybe it's something about sp. Ed. that brings out

the worst in these people. I don't know, but I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of platitudes, snarky looks, condescension, defending idiocy,

backhanded personal attacks towards my son or me as a parent and

underhanded BS meant to undermine my sons education all in the name of

money. Sickening.

And you know what, I so wish I didn't have to do this. I'm sure they

think I'm just a PITA for no good reason, but I have so many other

things going on that I have to get back to. I would LOVE for this to be

resolved. It would be so easy for me to just say fine, whatever, I'll

fix it later, but I just can't. I just wish, so HARD, I could request

some sort of intelligence and psychological testing for the educators we

are dealing with to sort through the idiots and the ones with issues. I

think that would solve allot of problems right there

Ok, well, I wanted to respond to the other posts real quick before

passing out. Thanks again Suzanne.

Take care,

Tabitha

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butt....

Hi everybody,

Just wanted to give you an update on the situation I have been dealing

with. I was given the impression that the IEP modifications I requested

were going to be added into the IEP. They weren't. Q's new teacher did

sign off on them, so that is good, but they are not part of his IEP.

When the sp.ed. supervisor was reading off the new IEP info, I made the

HUGE mistake of thinking these things were in addition to his old IEP

info. They weren't. That was it. His IEP has been stripped. His FBA,

gone. Counseling, gone. Behavior interventions like quiet room, gone.

Meaningful education goals, gone.

The new IEP is written in the most simplistic language with the least

amount of words possible. On top of that, it is chock full of spelling

and grammatical errors. Scary.

I still think the ED class is better than the placement he was in before

but his IEP is worthless. Utterly worthless. And I signed it. Like

the big moron I am. I wasn't actually able to get the IEP into my hands

until after everything was said and done. I was so busy worrying about

this and that and researching and printing and informing that I made the

huge mistake of trusting these idiots. Of thinking somehow they actually

knew a little about what they were doing. Of course, you would think

people with bachelors and masters actually had a brain, but apparently

not. This IEP just proves how lazy and uninvolved and uneducated these

people are. Again, scary.

I am sending in a letter to formally revoke my approval of the IEP, but

this is just going to add more problems. I am already on thin ice with

these guys for being such a PITA so far, but you know what, I don't

care. I'll try to be as diplomatic as possible, but will kick butt if I

have to. All they have to do is add back in the things from his old IEP

they stripped and rewrite it so that it doesn't look like my 3rd grader

wrote it. Sounds simple huh? I have a feeling though it will be

anything but simple. Anyway, take this as a cautionary tale. Don't get

so wrapped up in the details that you forget something as basic as

taking home the IEP before signing it. Duh.