The rantings of a teacher who retired from the classroom but not from education.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Getting Away From The Real Issue
My sudden interest in IEPs is being attacked. What an interesting way to deflect attention from the real issue, the way ISS students are having their rights trampled on.
14 comments:
Anonymous
said...
exactly the point - "your sudden interest in IEPs" and the fact that you called them worthless no more than a year ago.
Why, oh WHY must spineless assbags always leave their nasty comments anonymously!!? Didn't your mother ever teach you that if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all?
Better you should follow the policy of never changing your mind or reconsidering any issue no matter what. You see where GW took our country with that approach, and clearly our anonymous friend favors it.
The tile of the post is getting away from the real issue....
The real issue here is no one seemed to push this issue until the UFT made a button. That is actually the sad part. People like you have always had the attitude the IEPs were useless so why read them. You said muliple times on this blog.
In addition, the law changed last year that every teacher should have IEPs in their possession. With a sudden change in law and without the systems in place, it takes some time to accomodate teachers.
Real easy in a school of 400 with 10% population of ISS. Changes significantly in a school of 4500.
Too bad excuses are all you have, and too bad we can't do your job. Just about any one of us could do it better than you. We know what you don't. We teach the kids. We do our jobs. It's you who's failing, and it's the kids who will suffer for your incompetence.
We don't sit around and complain. We take care of the kids you neglect. Don't project your incompetence on us.
I also remember when PoD didn't find value in IEPs, and I was one who didn't agree with her. This "change of heart" didn't come from the union. If it did, she would be the first to say so. It came when she got so many children with special needs and was not given any information about testing and found herself not being able to discuss it with parents when asked.
Now I don't know who runs what over at Packemin", but I do know it's not hard to generate a list to teachers names of students who need extended time, who will be pulling them out, and where the new testing location will be. This cannot be done in the classroom since most IEPs call for extended time with most questions to be read.
Given all these new assessments, those mandates need to be applied.
It seems to me Election Day would have been a great time for the Special Ed Coordinator to meet with teachers and give them a list of students, a list of modifications, and how these mods will be implemented. Can it be the Special Ed coordinator at the school is just inept?????? Maybe a friend of yours????
As for the new ruling....for years all classroom and cluster teachers had to sign off on so many things regarding Special Ed students. But one thing we were involved with was the tri-annuals. I doubt that's a new rule.
And as for you Anon. Funny how you now want to put this teacher down for something that is right just because she was against it before. If you really feel for Special Ed kids, you would be welcoming this support!!
Anonymous said "In addition, the law changed last year that every teacher should have IEPs in their possession. "
So, it makes sense that there's a delay in doing precisely that, but surely (hopefully) teachers were always informed about the parts of the IEPs that specified what accommodations had to be made in the class. Otherwise, how could the school verify that the accommodations were being met? What did the school do instead of providing the IEPs before this rule? Surely, teachers should have at least as much information this year as last year. Or did IEPs just sit, ignored, in a filing cabinet last year, and no one did anything about them?
How about giving me last year's IEP while I wait for this year's IEP. At least I would have an idea of what the child needs. I know there's a lot of paperwork that goes with every kid and it takes time to do, but there must be a solution. Thanks for starting the dialogue, PO'd.
There are some on-line computer programs, which are very secure, that have all the necessary documents available at the click of a button and those teachers who have that student in class have access to the documents. It goes with the schedule so if there is a class change, you don't have to wait for a human to bring you papers, the access is immediately granted/denied to the person who received and to the one who lost the student.
Yes, I know this computer system. Every school should be using this system to send their IEP's. I am wondering, if Pissed Off's school has over 4500 students is the ISS population only 10%?
14 comments:
exactly the point - "your sudden interest in IEPs" and the fact that you called them worthless no more than a year ago.
Why, oh WHY must spineless assbags always leave their nasty comments anonymously!!? Didn't your mother ever teach you that if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all?
Better you should follow the policy of never changing your mind or reconsidering any issue no matter what. You see where GW took our country with that approach, and clearly our anonymous friend favors it.
oh and ChiTown Girl isn't anonymous? - Imbecile
The tile of the post is getting away from the real issue....
The real issue here is no one seemed to push this issue until the UFT made a button. That is actually the sad part. People like you have always had the attitude the IEPs were useless so why read them. You said muliple times on this blog.
In addition, the law changed last year that every teacher should have IEPs in their possession. With a sudden change in law and without the systems in place, it takes some time to accomodate teachers.
Real easy in a school of 400 with 10% population of ISS. Changes significantly in a school of 4500.
Hey Anon 9:08.
Typical administrative nonsense...blame the messenger for the broken system. Fix the system...it's for the kids!
The thing about incompetent administrators who can't get along with anybody is this...they need to blame everybody.
blah... blah.. blah...
what initiative have you taken to help resolve this matter. NONE!
sit around and complain... if you really cared about the kids you would offer solutions and time to help in whatever way you can.
Remember - NO EXCUSE!
Too bad excuses are all you have, and too bad we can't do your job. Just about any one of us could do it better than you. We know what you don't. We teach the kids. We do our jobs. It's you who's failing, and it's the kids who will suffer for your incompetence.
We don't sit around and complain. We take care of the kids you neglect. Don't project your incompetence on us.
Wow, POd, it appears you've touched a nerve here.
I also remember when PoD didn't find value in IEPs, and I was one who didn't agree with her. This "change of heart" didn't come from the union. If it did, she would be the first to say so. It came when she got so many children with special needs and was not given any information about testing and found herself not being able to discuss it with parents when asked.
Now I don't know who runs what over at Packemin", but I do know it's not hard to generate a list to teachers names of students who need extended time, who will be pulling them out, and where the new testing location will be. This cannot be done in the classroom since most IEPs call for extended time with most questions to be read.
Given all these new assessments, those mandates need to be applied.
It seems to me Election Day would have been a great time for the Special Ed Coordinator to meet with teachers and give them a list of students, a list of modifications, and how these mods will be implemented. Can it be the Special Ed coordinator at the school is just inept?????? Maybe a friend of yours????
As for the new ruling....for years all classroom and cluster teachers had to sign off on so many things regarding Special Ed students. But one thing we were involved with was the tri-annuals. I doubt that's a new rule.
And as for you Anon. Funny how you now want to put this teacher down for something that is right just because she was against it before. If you really feel for Special Ed kids, you would be welcoming this support!!
Anonymous said "In addition, the law changed last year that every teacher should have IEPs in their possession. "
So, it makes sense that there's a delay in doing precisely that, but surely (hopefully) teachers were always informed about the parts of the IEPs that specified what accommodations had to be made in the class. Otherwise, how could the school verify that the accommodations were being met? What did the school do instead of providing the IEPs before this rule? Surely, teachers should have at least as much information this year as last year. Or did IEPs just sit, ignored, in a filing cabinet last year, and no one did anything about them?
How about giving me last year's IEP while I wait for this year's IEP. At least I would have an idea of what the child needs. I know there's a lot of paperwork that goes with every kid and it takes time to do, but there must be a solution.
Thanks for starting the dialogue, PO'd.
There are some on-line computer programs, which are very secure, that have all the necessary documents available at the click of a button and those teachers who have that student in class have access to the documents. It goes with the schedule so if there is a class change, you don't have to wait for a human to bring you papers, the access is immediately granted/denied to the person who received and to the one who lost the student.
Yes, I know this computer system. Every school should be using this system to send their IEP's. I am wondering, if Pissed Off's school has over 4500 students is the ISS population only 10%?
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