IEP

 As his foster parents we were included in the IEP meeting. It was really between the school and the social worker. The school treated us like  babysitters, who shouldn't even be there. Our foster care classes taught us that we are the child's advocate and we took this meeting seriously.

 As I was reading JJ's IEP I noticed that in several places it said "Daniel" instead of JJ. It was obvious that someone had copied and pasted portions of JJ's IEP. I asked who Daniel was. The school basically said shut up. I pressed the matter because I wasn't sure which goals were Daniel's and which were JJ's. I wanted him to be reevaluated, but was overruled. 

 One of JJ's goals was to count to ten. Math is JJ's thing. JJ loves numbers, he could count to at least 1,000, probably higher. So hubby and I videoed him counting 84 blocks and submitted it to the school. They would not accept it because the teacher wasn't physically there. The teacher said she thought he might have miscounted. If JJ miscounted it was way past ten and only because he got distracted. 

 I had no plans of homeschooling JJ, but we started asking the social worker to allow it after this meeting. 

MR