Friday, September 7, 2012

IEP "Teams" with NO NAMES!

Great ANOTHER THING Broward ESE Department comes up with to be Parent Friendly & it certainly seems more COLLABORATIVE during the IEP PROCESS!! NOT!!

I would HOPE now with being able to NOT HAVE TO LIST the "school district" side of our parent friendly IEP Teams Via the Parent Participation Forms aka PPF's that PARENTS also will NOT HAVE TO let them know WHO WE WILL BE BRINGING!!! ....like the Newspaper reporter friend of mine or the CAMERA MAN from any number of TV STATIONS with their RECORDING NEWS CREWS!! This could be very good for parents as well cause we too wouldn't have to put OUR NAMES ON THE PPF EITHER!!

Well this just goes to show how COMBATIVE & UNCOOPERATIVE it has become just to hold an IEP Meeting to ensure our children are EDUCATED!

Hmmmm.... will we be able to get PARENT SIGNATURES on our IEP's then?? That has always bothered me that Parents don't have to sign the IEP!! So now will we be able to get the signatures of ALL that attend? What about the EXCUSAL FORM? How do we excuse "NO NAME" IEP Team Member? This is such nonsense!!

Bet this was the brainchild from a corner office on the 9th floor of the KCW Building...always coming up with yet another way to BLOCK ESE PARENTS from having collaborative IEP Meetings. This may be another of a list of BEST PRACTICE POLICIES that can't be produced in writing to us.

BROWARD ESE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO STOP THE UNDER-HANDED SNEAKY NONSENSE!!

How do they go to "work" day after day collecting their paychecks just to keep on keeping on with all their nonsense they "come up with" to keep THE DOORS CLOSED TIGHT ON SO MANY ESE PARENTS-FAMILIES & STUDENTS!!?

Time 4 CHANGE! The Time is NOW!!!
Time to get rid of a FLOOR full of ESE ADMINISTRATORS &amp and some of those Nasty PROGRAM SPECIALIST!!! Most are trained to FIGHT with the Parents!! Nasty some of them are for sure! 

Tell me it isn't true...that Broward ESE Department is going to get away with this......because...why...because "they can~!!?"


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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should familiarize yourself with the actual law not what you THINK before you mislead parents. Check out what other states and districts have been doing for years. It is a lot less than Broward because the law does not require all that Broward has historically done. But of course you won't post this.

Anonymous said...

I can't help but feel this is in response to the district deciding it might be a good idea to supply ALL parents of ESE students a DRAFT IEP 5 days before a meeting. Some management types at BCPS feel there must be a balance, and if the District gives something like Draft IEP's 5 days before meetings to parents, they must keep the IEP participants anonymous and must close out goals from the previous IEP before the next meeting. For some reason some BCPS peeps feel it is necessary to have this static balance because the option would be, OMG, to actually move forward and improve ESE education.
A perfect example of acting in the best interest of the student, something staff at BCPS always does.
Steve Moyer

DS Advocate ~ Nancy Linley-Harris said...

I am posting your reply.....I hope others reply to you as this all is not what I THiNK but what IS HAPPENING here in Broward.......it's all nonsense!! Next time Broward ESE "person"...SIGN YOUR NAME if you dare!!

Unknown said...

Thank you Steve for your reply...and adding your name to your reply too! For parents to get the DRAFT IEP's....that's a GOOD THING because it allows parents to have an opportunity to be able to actually READ what has been written about their Child! We all know they make the tiniest windows on the wall projector and those of us with vision problems..and they can't make those tiny little boxes or the Font size larger for any of us to be able to read it anyway you look at it...in paper format or projected on the wall. I have been requesting my paper IEP docs be in larger font goes nowhere!! Requesting a draft copy ahead of time is nothing new for me, but now with it being something they have to offer 5 days BEFORE an IEP meeting, I'm sure that has many staff & IEP "team" members not so happy about it. ...BUT to now only get 45 minutes to 1 ENTIRE HOUR for an IEP for a child/student with significant educational and learning issues is absolutely ridiculous to say the least! Now we are NOT to dispute, change, insert or remove one GOLDEN WORD in those DRAFTS at our IEP meetings...FIGHT if you dare...they will shoot down pretty much anything a parent suggests or wants to change in that precious DRAFT copy of an IEP now for sure!!

You may be right Steve....this could be sort of like two little children not playing so nice in the sandbox together!! Will the games never end?

Anonymous said...

It is insane all we have to go though as ESE parents! The only thing we ask and want is our kids educated with the right supports and services and what IDEA says… Just like Martin Luther King had a dream. I have a dream…. That all discrimination stops and retaliation against parents of ESE students stop to….Oh do I have a dream and the school system to do their jobs as educators teaching not certain students but ALL STUDENTS! Why are we retaliated against? If the school system was doing right by ALL STUDENTS then you wouldn’t have so much accoublabitlty on your shoulders wouldn't you?? Parents are only on top of it all either one just to be involved or two because something went wrong and someone was not doing their job correctly and or being trained to work with such. It’s an easy fix people “DO THE RIGHT THING” fix what’s broken and this land could be built again. Why does each and every parent have to educate themselves because the school system won't!!! It’s sad.. It's a secret society!! We are shut down at every chance! Everything is hushhh hushh!! I will fight to the death of me with state complaints. I have a friend almost done with Law school she is going to rock and shake Broward school system!! She will make a great lawyer for special need students. I can't wait for her to take this district down well the ESE dept. at least!

DS Advocate ~ Nancy Linley-Harris said...

Thank you for taking the time to write your comment to my post titled: IEP "teams" with NO NAMES!"

Honestly....I don't know how Broward thinks they can keep coming up with their own rules that they make 'sound like' it's a policy or they make it sound like it's in Federal IDEA Law...when it is all just a big game being played.

Some involved parents of ESE children are VERY AWARE and some parents of ESE children have no idea what the big deal is...because they are not reading I D E A and what the FEDERAL LAWS are pertaining to the education of their child with unique learning needs.

PARENTS!! WAKE-UP!! Question everything that is...."SAID"....RESEARCH & READ FEDERAL IDEA, STATE & LOCAL Special Ed Rules and Laws! (*The Yellow Book=IDEA Federal, The Red Book=Florida ESE Rules & Programs, SP&P Guide is the LOCAL School Districts ESE Rules & Programs) You will be the better advocate for your child's education IF YOU DO!