{"id":269,"date":"2009-05-21T08:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2009-05-26T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T15:24:05","slug":"can-a-child-be-punished-for-not-meeting-iep-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-a-child-be-punished-for-not-meeting-iep-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Child be Punished for Not Meeting IEP Goals?"},"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=\"Can%20a%20Child%20be%20Punished%20for%20Not%20Meeting%20IEP%20Goals%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>My son is in 6th grade and has ADHD (combined type). He was assigned 1 hour after school detention for not getting his agenda (homework assignment booklet) signed.One of the short term objective\/benchmarks in his IEP is to have his agenda signed by all of the teachers and a parent daily. When this goal was added to his IEP, I had no clue that it would be used in this way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A goal is written into your child&#8217;s IEP because the IEP team:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 1. <\/strong>knows it is an important skill, and<br \/>\n<strong> 2. <\/strong>knows the student cannot accomplish the goal without specialized instruction.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Using a homework assignment booklet is a good strategy for children with ADHD.  It is a helpful tool for developing organizational skills. When it is written into the IEP as a goal, it is an <strong>instructional objective<\/strong>,<strong> <em>not<\/em><\/strong> a method of discipline.<\/p>\n<p>If the teacher fails to meet the instructional objective, it makes no sense to punish the child.  It is the teacher&#8217;s failure. She has not taught your child what he needs to be able to do in order the reach the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Ask this question: <em>Are all students in the school required to have an agenda signed, or only special education students?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is this a written school policy? Have you seen a copy of the policy?   Even if it is not written, it appears to be a school wide practice.<\/p>\n<p>You need to request a meeting of the IEP team to review the IEP. Discuss this goal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Is it appropriate?<\/li>\n<li> How is it being implemented?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> The intent of the IEP is to design a program of specialized instruction to help your child progress and reach his individualized goals. <\/strong>The team should expect that your child can reasonably achieve his goals with the appropriate instruction, rather than writing into the IEP how he will be &#8220;punished&#8221; if he does not.<\/p>\n<p>Explain your situation to the school and work with the IEP team to change this practice.<\/p>\n<p>If this doesn&#8217;t work, you should contact you local Protection &amp; Advocacy Agency. You can find your local office here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napas.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.napas.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They may assist you and the parents of the other students if you need to file a civil rights complaint. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/index.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son is in 6th grade and has ADHD (combined type). He was assigned 1 hour after school detention for not getting his agenda (homework assignment booklet) signed.One of the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-a-child-be-punished-for-not-meeting-iep-goals\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,57,18,64],"tags":[1307,1326,71,1299,334],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-fape","category-ieps","category-special-education-regulations","tag-adhd","tag-discipline","tag-iep-goals","tag-ieps","tag-short-term-objectives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}