Please help. Â Today is NOREP day 10 for high school student with ASD, ADHD, SLD written expression
After meeting #10 this year, an IEE completed in June, with an advocate signed on since December, there are âsurprisesâ in the finalized version. Â
My big issue: âHow Progress is Measuredâ next to the Writing goal. Â Student work samples has always been included along with their âteach checklistâ, âteacher rubricâ, etc.
In the finalized IEP, they just put Keystone Rubric alone.  They had some other rubric in the draft, which I called the advocate about prior to the meeting and told her absolutely noâŠthat his actual work samples had to be included with the rubric for Measuring Progress.  She absolutely agreed, I told them at the meeting (with advocate), and they said âokâ, but they only have Keystone Rubric and refuse to add student written work samples.
They also added a ridiculous baseline right with the goal that is one paragraph from last October and was not scored properly (which underscores why the actual work must be part of the âmeasuring progressâ. Â They refuse to remove this âletâs shove a bunch of crap in after the meeting and after the lawyers go over itâ.
There are a lot of things that Iâm not happy about in the IEP, but this is the last straw for me. Â Once I allow them to implement an IEP without using my kiddos actual written work to measure goal progress, 1) I will never get my hands on his work, and 2) they will check off boxes/rubrics/excel sheets that wonât be accurate (trust me on this) and continue to fail my kiddo forward, and right out of high school:(.
Can I file due process where I do not agree to the goal measurement? (Again, for good reason because their data tracking is pitiful).
I know this sounds silly, but with literally a meeting a month for 2 kids at this district, where they change goals that we agreed to at a meeting and say âwe determined after the meetingâ, or âwe looked at the data when we were writing it upâ, or âwe know we agreed but we looked over the data andâŠâ.  I know that after the meetings our IEPs go through a million different hands and get âtweakedâ âadjustedâ, etc., and the final version Always has changes that are easy to overlook, but are important. Â
Iâm sure the answer is yes, but are they allowed to change anything they want in the final version? Â Because plunking in a bs baseline with the writing goal (after 10 meetings), and refusing to keep âstudent work samplesâ smells rotten to me. Â Written expression has been a Big Deal the whole time, so these changes are not haphazard. Â
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Also, the NOREP does not state facts in some areas: kiddo got Below Basic on May Algebra Keystones (as I predicted), he had âNeeds Supportâ benchmarks the whole year in Algebra, his IXL (3 assessments this year, last one in May) have him at 3rd grade Geometry, 2nd grade Measurement, and 5th grade in fractions, but they say and wrote on the NOREP refusing to create a math goal because, ârejected because current educational data do not demonstrate the need for separate annual math goal.â
The NOREP also does not reflect things I requested and they refused at the meeting including:
Adding a goal for planning and revision for Written Expression, changing the âhow disability affects studentâ (they have 2 silly sentences that mean nothing, so I emailed a suggestion and they emailed back 2 minutes later saying no).  They have no reasonâŠ
Please help.  I am so frustrated and do not want another IEP to go into effect when I do not agreeâŠ..if I do agree with their progress monitoring methodology, then there is no way for me to know what they are doing or how my kiddo is doing.  I have seen and dealt with disappearing writing goals for years and know that without the actual work, they can and will say anything:(
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Please help. Â Today is NOREP day 10 for high school student with ASD, ADHD, SLD written expression
After meeting #10 this year, an IEE completed in June, with an advocate signed on since December, there are âsurprisesâ in the finalized version
. Â
My big issue: âHow Progress is Measuredâ next to the Writing goal. Â Student work samples has always been included along with their âteach checklistâ, âteacher rubricâ, etc.
In the finalized IEP, they just put Keystone Rubric alone.  They had some other rubric in the draft, which I called the advocate about prior to the meeting and told her absolutely noâŠthat his actual work samples had to be included with the rubric for Measuring Progress.  She absolutely agreed, I told them at the meeting (with advocate), and they said âokâ, but they only have Keystone Rubric and refuse to add student written work samples.
They also added a ridiculous baseline right with the goal that is one paragraph from last October and was not scored properly (which underscores why the actual work must be part of the âmeasuring progressâ. Â They refuse to remove this âletâs shove a bunch of crap in after the meeting and after the lawyers go over itâ
.
There are a lot of things that Iâm not happy about in the IEP, but this is the last straw for me. Â Once I allow them to implement an IEP without using my kiddos actual written work to measure goal progress, 1) I will never get my hands on his work, and 2) they will check off boxes/rubrics/excel sheets that wonât be accurate (trust me on this) and continue to fail my kiddo forward, and right out of high school:(.
Can I file due process where I do not agree to the goal measurement? (Again, for good reason because their data tracking is pitiful).
I know this sounds silly, but with literally a meeting a month for 2 kids at this district, where they change goals that we agreed to at a meeting and say âwe determined after the meetingâ, or âwe looked at the data when we were writing it upâ, or âwe know we agreed but we looked over the data andâŠâ.  I know that after the meetings our IEPs go through a million different hands and get âtweakedâ âadjustedâ, etc., and the final version Always has changes that are easy to overlook, but are important. Â
Iâm sure the answer is yes, but are they allowed to change anything they want in the final version? Â Because plunking in a bs baseline with the writing goal (after 10 meetings), and refusing to keep âstudent work samplesâ smells rotten to me. Â Written expression has been a Big Deal the whole time, so these changes are not haphazard. Â
Â
Also, the NOREP does not state facts in some areas: kiddo got Below Basic on May Algebra Keystones (as I predicted), he had âNeeds Supportâ benchmarks the whole year in Algebra, his IXL (3 assessments this year, last one in May) have him at 3rd grade Geometry, 2nd grade Measurement, and 5th grade in fractions, but they say and wrote on the NOREP refusing to create a math goal because, ârejected because current educational data do not demonstrate the need for separate annual math goal.â
The NOREP also does not reflect things I requested and they refused at the meeting including:
Adding a goal for planning and revision for Written Expression, changing the âhow disability affects studentâ (they have 2 silly sentences that mean nothing, so I emailed a suggestion and they emailed back 2 minutes later saying no).  They have no reasonâŠ
Please help.  I am so frustrated and do not want another IEP to go into effect when I do not agreeâŠ..if I do agree with their progress monitoring methodology, then there is no way for me to know what they are doing or how my kiddo is doing.  I have seen and dealt with disappearing writing goals for years and know that without the actual work, they can and will say anything:(
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