Our First IEP – A Non-Starter


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Our first IEP was with The City of Richmond School System.  This school system, as well as the city council, has for decades been the laughing-stock of the Metro Richmond area because of incompetence and corruption.  The City of Richmond perennially spends more money per student, but produces lower standardized scores than any of the surrounding counties.  The services to be provided for Ben as a two-year-old were more for the purposes of early intervention with needed therapies and less about true education.  We consulted with all of our doctors and therapists before the meeting and all of us decided that the services that Ben was receiving at the Cerebral Palsy Center were serving his needs beautifully.  Something that has always been very important to Ben has been schedule and continuity.  To disrupt Ben’s routine can for a while cause him much anxiety.  Our proposal, which we backed up with letters from every doctor and therapist, would be to allow him to continue to be served under an IEP at the Cerebral Palsy Center, with the school system providing a small subsidy so we could afford to keep him there.  Given the city’s normal cost per pupil, we all felt that this was a win-win situation.  However, when we got to the meeting, it was clear that Ben’s IEP had more or less already been written.  The decision had been made where Ben would be located (which happened to be in one of the worst sections of town), and what level of service would be provided.  The school officials were unwilling to even listen to our plan and it seemed as if they could care less how well Ben was progressing in his current situation.  I understand that due to the number of children in the system it is difficult to grant individual requests, but not everything in life is easy.  What I don’t understand is why the local school systems did not partner with the wonderful local facilities like the Cerebral Palsy Center and Childrens’ Hospital, which later merged and are still providing excellent services to our young special needs community.  To say the least, Dennis and I left the IEP meeting without signing the document.  This elicited an indignant letter from the Director of Pupil Services and Special Education, (the Honorable) Frederick L

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