[blindkid] Scheduling an IEP time

[Carol Castellano]

Good luck!!!!!
Carol

Carol Castellano
Parents of Blind Children-NJ
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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At 05:03 PM 2/23/2015, you wrote:
>Thanks for the input all. Looks like I will go along with the IEP 
>before school and bring both my kids. I suppose I was a little 
>irritated because they agreed on the time, and then the TVI told me 
>that it had to change because the school principal did not want to 
>have a substitute in the class while my son's teacher was at the 
>IEP. Somehow this was possible last year but not this year. Of 
>course, I would not want to disrupt other students' schedules but 
>that wasn't the reason why the school changed the time at the last 
>moment. This school is a huge bureaucracy and very inflexible unlike 
>the IEP team.
>
>Can't stand IEP meetings!
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Mark Feliz <mafeliz0641 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have always scheduled IEP.s after school hours mostly because I do
> > not want any of the specialists involved to have to cancel any of
> > their students. I do not know the reason why you do not want an after
> > school IEP. I have had plenty of young students at my meetings as well
> > as plenty of siblings. Give the young ones something to do and they
> > are fine.
> > Of course there could be others reasons not stated.
> > Mark Feliz
> >
> >> On 2/23/15, Penny Duffy via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >> We struggle to get them time except during school because of the teachers
> >> contract.  Regardless.  I would never excuse a team essential 
> required team
> >> member.
> >>> On Feb 23, 2015 2:44 PM, "Pui via blindkid" <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> Wondering how you parents have scheduled an IEP time, and what our rights
> >>> are as parents.
> >>>
> >>> The IEP team after saying they could accommodate my schedule to have an
> >>> IEP meeting when my children are in school, are now saying they need to
> >>> schedule it before or after school. I believe the change of mind came
> >>> from
> >>> my son's school administration because they did not want to hire a
> >>> substitute for the day even though the teacher will only be gone for 90
> >>> minutes, they have to pay for a day. After agreeing to 9 am they said it
> >>> had to be at 1:30 pm when the kindergarten day is done (my son is an
> >>> early
> >>> bird and is done at 11:50am, so I would have no childcare for him and
> >>> would
> >>> have to bring him which is not my preference).
> >>>
> >>> I know that legally all members of the IEP team have to be there unless I
> >>> excuse them (which I don't want to). My son's school asked if his
> >>> kindergarten teacher could just write a statement about him for the
> >>> meeting. I said I wanted her there because she knows him well.
> >>>
> >>> Am I being unreasonable in wanting the IEP during the time my son is in
> >>> school? Is the onus on me to find childcare and accommodate the school
> >>> administration? I am trying to not be difficult. Also, we did have an IEP
> >>> at the school last year and they did allow my chosen kindergarten teacher
> >>> to come to the meeting so they must have had made arrangements. This year
> >>> it seems impossible.
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Pui Burmahln
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPad
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