School Blaming Your Parenting?
Behavior tied to a disability is not a parenting problem, and framing it that way often means something in the IEP isn't being addressed.
Redirect the ConversationThe longer the focus stays on home, the longer the real gap in services goes unaddressed.
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Alan Driggers
Founder, The IEP Coach
Sound familiar?
- You've been told the behavior would improve with "more structure at home."
- Nobody has connected the behavior back to the IEP, the BIP, or an evaluation.
- You feel like you're being managed instead of heard.
- The conversation shifts to your parenting every time you raise a concern about services.
What to do right now
Redirect the conversation back to the IEP
Ask, in writing, what in the current plan addresses this specific behavior.
Ask whether an FBA is needed
If the behavior isn't understood, the plan addressing it can't be either.
Get a second read on the file
A former insider can tell you whether the district's own documentation supports what they're telling you.
Get in touch
This isn't a parenting conversation. It's a plan conversation.
Tell us what's been said and what's in the current plan. We'll tell you where the actual gap is.