{"id":8237,"date":"2012-08-30T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2013-10-25T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:16:42","slug":"its-started-not-just-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/its-started-not-just-school\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s started!  Not just school&#8230;"},"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=\"It%27s%20started%21%20%20Not%20just%20school...\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/school\/school.firstday.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" \/>Is your school district or the IEP team quoting policy or regulation that you\u2019ve never heard of before or don\u2019t understand?<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the many that pour in this time of year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. To observe in the classroom, the school said we had to get 24-hour prior approval from a school administrator, then they would arrange the time for observation.<\/p>\n<p>2. Our School District told us that supplementary programs cannot be named in the IEP. They said the IEP had to target \u201cunderlying skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. The school administrator said that one of my students must be earning D\u2019s or worse to qualify for an extended time accommodation on tests and quizzes through a 504 plan.<\/p>\n<p>4. The school said parents couldn\u2019t call for an IEP meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And these&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5. My district says it is their policy to add language in the IEP goals, under the category of persons responsible for implementing the goals (i.e., teachers, district personnel, student, parents, family). How can a parent, family or child be expected to implement goals at school?<\/p>\n<p>6. The school says a parent can&#8217;t request a particular instructor, but has to be assigned to an instructor by the school.<\/p>\n<p>7. I was told in our IEP meeting today that our state law requires goals on the IEP to state the grade level.\u00a0 This &#8220;grade level&#8221; would be an unreachable goal for my students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ask to see a written copy<\/strong> of the school rule or policy or the &#8220;law.&#8221; Asking for a copy is not just a good idea. It can be one of your best practices for problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to asking, <strong>put your request in writing<\/strong> \u2013 in a letter to the school. Politely request a copy the \u201cpolicy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard us say this before.\u00a0 <strong>Unwritten school policy is no policy at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And remember. <strong>School &#8220;policy&#8221; does not trump the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your school district or the IEP team quoting policy or regulation that you\u2019ve never heard of before or don\u2019t understand? Here are a few of the many that pour <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/its-started-not-just-school\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}