I am livid. In June, after school was out, I met with 2 special ed administrations and my advocate. The end result was an IEP I was thrilled with--I finally felt it was appropriate for my dd. Now, there were many meetings before this including one in which the biggest spec ed wig scrutinized every accommodation I wanted and word-smithed it to be acceptable to her. Okay, great, we are starting the new year with a new spec ed teacher who I am told (in a much nicer way) is much better than the last one. So, dd's teacher called me before school stared and we agreed that she and I would meet to discuss some things about the coming year (she is great, aware of all the struggles and very supportive). When I arrived, teacher informed me, new spec. ed teacher would join us soon. Teacher was jazzed about this, says dont worry, new spec ed teacher is great, etc. New spec ed teacher joins and informs me some dates that are on the IEP the admins and I wrote in June were not changed appropriately (they basically said she would meet her goals by the next month, which of course is not possible). I agreed we could change the dates and I would sign whatever needed to be sign. Great, right?
Well, along with other things that i won't even get into, today I go to dd's classroom to sign a copy of the IEP with new dates, as requested by spec. ed teacher and I look it over. She has removed 6 accommodations that I worked hard to get on there, that the spec ed admin scrutinized. She also states that the teacher called me to ask me to have an IEP meeting, which was not true. If I had known this was an IEP meeting I would have had my advocate and a spec ed admin there AND I would have prepared differently.
I have sent an e-mail to the spec ed admin but as I said, I am livid, and am worried that this is NOT a misunderstanding and the spec ed admin. will back up the new teacher. Yuck. This is really ridiculous.