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Better IEP Meetings Everyone Wins

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Depending on where you live, a Better IEP Meeting is a dream hardly ever a reality. A parent can learn and read all these books and follow their suggestions but the power and control is in the hands of the school district. The book is helpful if the world was fair and all educators truly cared about their jobs and wanted to truly help all their students.

No harm in supplying yourself with knowledge which this book does. Just enter the meeting as prepared as you can but remember in reality you are only one person in a sea of people at this meeting. The more knowledgeable you are from reading this the better off you are and the less likely they will intimdate you.

Wish teachers and educators would read this book so they could be more effective in their jobs

I'm sure the author means well, but until special education is funded at the promised 40% instead of the ridiculous 17%--and flat funding per student on top of that--there will continue to be confrontations and lawsuits. And--I hope--a very warm place in the afterlife for those who passed "unfunded mandates", but continue to vote high pay raises for themselves. As a special ed teacher, there are many services and resources we would like to provide for students, but don't have the money for without adversely affecting the education of many other students.