[tri-med] Re: parent teacher conf

what i am trying to understand is how and why you would have he can not fail
(the course) in the iep?
jude, mom to derek-16, kelsey-14 and
kameron-5-full trisomy 18
golden, colorado usa
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Waite" <jwaite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> One of the "ugly" teachers went on to tell me that Alex's IEP was unfair
to
> the general ed students (talking about his extended test and long term
> project time). If she wanted to talk about unfair I could have given her a
> run for her money because the IEP doesn't totally even the playing field,
it
> only gives students with issues beyond their control and nobodies fault a
> shot at succeeding and competing like the other students. It protects
their
> rights to an education against spec ed bigots like her. There are teachers
> out there who believe NO special ed students should be in gen ed
classrooms
> (typically older teachers). That scares me!
>
> The 2 at conf the other night........they were just "bad", don't really
know
> any better and weren't nasty about it but weren't going to try and learn
his
> IEP past what Alex/we let them know. And if we have any problems to "let
> them know" and they'd take care of it. Both were male and both are young.
> :0)


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