Beth Liesenfeld
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
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What happened though is is legislatively, we now have the IDEA law, which in my opinion is great.
It's a great patch to fix the system.
And when I see IEPs going really well and having a lot of collaboration between the school team and the parent, I do think it works well.
And those are the meetings that we feel so excited about when we're done is because it actually worked.
But what happens when it doesn't work and the collaboration isn't there is that now this legal piece, which is kind of cold and not based on relationships like education innately is, that's like an oil and water situation.
And so instead of making a patch on a broken system and like fixing it and making it
really child centered and really relationship based, it instead makes it cold.
And that's why so many meetings feel like it's us against the school.
And there's that divide there.
And then also there's just a really big difference in education and knowledge between what the school is legally supposed to do and what the school is doing.
And there's a lot of like this secrecy.
Like for example, I remember a lot of times one of probably one of the first things that I wanted to pull people aside about was when we were going through the evaluation process, parents would be like, Okay, well, are they gonna qualify?
Like going into this meeting in in a week, can I get a little bit of a hint on if they're gonna qualify or not?
And they would get shut down all the time.
Well, that's because schools have gotten in trouble for quote unquote predetermining
if a child qualifies or not before that meeting.
Well, that's all you have to say to the parent is like, we can't really s tell you, but we're gonna go over it in the meeting.
But so many times they'll just be like, I can't tell you that without giving a reason behind it.
And so there's this innate like conflict because one side obviously has more information than the parents do.
And I feel like that's unfair.
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