{"id":14359,"date":"2016-02-08T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2016-02-08T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:33:35","slug":"iep-meeting-can-we-invite-the-district-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/iep-meeting-can-we-invite-the-district-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"IEP Meeting: CAN WE INVITE THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"IEP%20Meeting%3A%20CAN%20WE%20INVITE%20THE%20DISTRICT%20SUPERINTENDENT%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Heather:  The brief background is that the school has engaged in unprofessional and bullying tactics at previous child study, IEP, and 504 meetings.  As the parent I have been the model of decorum and have not engaged but the principal is beyond the pale, blurting predetermination statements, yelling at me as though I am a child in the office in the presence of parents and staff, calling me to pick up my autistic son for &#8220;an emergency&#8221; and then refusing to tell me what happened to facilitate my leaving work and rushing to the school to get my autistic child.  I have written a letter to the superintendent which I am afraid to send because I fear she will deny my son services or enact vengeance on him in some way.  I was thinking if I could invite the district superintendent, her supervisor, to the next meeting, either he will witness the behavior or she will keep herself in check which would ultimately result in a better outcome.  Of course that is dependent on whether he would choose to attend as well, but perhaps you can answer if it is allowed?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather: The brief background is that the school has engaged in unprofessional and bullying tactics at previous child study, IEP, and 504 meetings. As the parent I have been the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/iep-meeting-can-we-invite-the-district-superintendent\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1347],"class_list":["post-14359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-i"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}