Reevaluation & Changes To IEP

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I am fairly new to the group, and have only posted one other time. I have an 8 year old son with Aspergers. He is in a Therapeutic Emotional Support (TES) classroom. My wife and I believe that he is ready to return to his local school, in a regular education classroom, with an aide.

My wife and I believe that the TES classroom is no longer helping our son. They are not challenging him academically. And this is causing him to act up, because he is bored. He makes fun of the other kids when they take to long to get the correct answer, or they get it wrong. I don't think he is doing this with a mean spirit. I just don't think that he understands why they don't find it as easy as he does.

So at his last IEP meeting, (that I requested) I order my son to be reevaluated. This included Intelligence and Academic testing, and a review of records.

The testing was completed on Friday. I received an email from my son's teacher stating that they need to complete the reevaluation process. This includes scoring and evaluating the data of the test. In my opinion this should take less than 10 minutes, and should have been done immediately following my son's completion of the test. The teacher also says that she will be faxing a scale to rate the testing to the test administrator. And she said that the school district will send us the results, and we will have a meeting to discuss it.

And then we will have to have yet another meeting to discuss any changes to his IEP. The school year will be over before all of that happens. My questions are, is it necessary to have two separate meetings? And do you feel like I do, that they are dragging this out as much as possible, because they know I want my son out of this school?

I will be contacting our Parent Advocate and get her input as well. I just want to hear from this group also. Any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim