Over the course of the year, I was taught the difference between a one on one and a classroom aide. That difference is just what DR. LATHAM says it is. Never mind what's written in the IEP, what matters is what we can get by with.
I got to sit in a meeting with CATHE'S CLAN, DR. LATHAM, DR. WARY, LYDIA MUGGEO, and SUE HOWELL and listen to LYDIA deny ever offering a one on one for a kid and then having to wipe away the over spray from the egg on the face of LYDIA as a recorded voice mail was played. After that we all walked away and no definitions were redefined that day.
And then I sat in a meeting where Sue Howell told that same parent that it was an accident (putting a 1:1 aid in their IEP). I guess they just happened to make that same mistake 4 or 5 times in the IEP and then over the phone on a voice mail.
ReplyDeleteThey had the audacity to blame the fact that the parent's first language is not English. It's a good thing the Office of Civil Rights straightened all that out and reminded the school that they must provide the IEP in the family's native language. Too bad it took 3 months to translate; I smell another OCR violation...