Bad writing goal 9th grade, weird measurement by district, district “revision” actually a new goal

[Janis]

9th grader with SLD in written expression being ignored.  District initially created this Writing Goal for him to write a paragraph with no more than 2 errors in conventions on 3 out of 4 writing assignments per quarter for at least 2 quarters….

(I was never in agreement with this as proposed on 2/21/25.)

I am attaching screenshot of the progress monitoring, then a screenshot of how they are now measuring this in his IEP, and their proposed revision of this goal.

He did not meet this simple goal.  They give him “A”s in his classes and on his assignments which they now won’t provide to me. His work is shocking.  Especially compared to the grades.  I need help writing goals for him.  He scored 7% on his essay comp WIAt (12/2024), has a SLD in written expression per IEE (plus others), first eligibility in 1st grade was SLD which was lost in 4th grade (Covid) I was not in agreement.

 

[JSD24]

I want to address this:  I was never in agreement with this as proposed on 2/21/25. If this was on the IEP and you didn't disagree on the NOREP, the IEP goes into effect.  Your other post said you were in CA.  CA has different rules where parents needs to actively agree with the IEP.  PA is different.  Ignore the NOREP & the IEP goes into effect in 10 days.

I had similar issues with one of my twins and how they graded him in English.  He'd not do the book report - a major part of the grade - and they'd act like it wasn't assigned when calculating the grade.

If you don't feel a goal is appropriate, request an IEP meeting and convince the school to change it.  What SDI is the school providing to teach him how to meet his goals?  Is the SDI appropriate?  If he's not making progress, the school might need to change-up their remedial approach.  (Sorry for the delay in answering this.  I meant to get back you you but couldn't find your post.  I only can see the 10 most recent posts.)