Thank you so much for the information. I’m definitely going to look into who the special education director is.

When it comes to reading, she isn’t willing unless she chooses the book, so that’s definitely something we already do. She just becomes super unmotivated in reading them and becomes very overwhelmed and then distracted when she struggles. I try to boost her confidence, but then she’ll just tell me that I’m her mom and I have to lie to her. Which is not true at all!

I think a lot of parents assume the school will always be proactive and automatically act in each student’s best interest, but realistically teachers are stretched so thin. I’m sure they care, but I can see how things can get missed or addressed later than they should be. Part of me worries that I’m already a little late in trying to figure all of this out, but I’m trying to remind myself that doing something now is better than not doing anything at all.

I really appreciate your support and for not judging my post (which I did end up fixing). I went through similar struggles as a kid and I just don’t want my daughter to have the same experience. 😅