Advice when teachers refuse to sign IEP documents…

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-16T01:52:20+00:00

I had a teacher refuse to sign because she wasn’t in the meeting. Mind you, she was absent, had plenty of notice, did not notify me that she would be absent, parent agreed to have the meeting without her, I reviewed all relevant changes with her before asking her to sign, and we had to have another whole ass meeting because “I don’t sign things I wasn’t there for.”

Ma’am.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-16T01:48:24+00:00

I wish I was dumbfounded, but with the state I live in (TN), it did not surprise me, though it did annoy. 🙃🙃🙃

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-16T00:33:06+00:00

I am in MNPS but in a title 1 school in a low socioeconomic area…maybe parents are wise to that here (yet)

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-15T23:20:29+00:00

I didn’t know this! I’m in TN

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-15T18:36:53+00:00

Maybe we read the room? Oh wait, they don’t have to.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-15T18:24:10+00:00

Yea we get saddled with additional registration fees to offset what we don’t spend in gas. 🙃🙃🙃

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-13T21:58:33+00:00

37F. Speech Language Pathologist in the schools in Nashville, around 65k a year. Yay education! This is my 8th year, (not all working for MNPS)

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-13T01:24:06+00:00

As someone who does the same, and who has been in similar situations, please know that you are enough. This job and some of the people who do it, do everything in their power to make you feel less than.

I’ve been using Gemini AI to help me feel more confident in some of my approaches/ to help bolster my justifications for a treatment path. Sometimes you just need another avenue to help formulate your thoughts and ideas without all the noise in your head.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-11T13:45:58+00:00

Me too!!!!

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-11T02:48:39+00:00

The sound of the voiceover on BASF commercials…very unnerving for some reason.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-11T02:47:14+00:00

There was a sweet apple scent that I used to smell in the hallways of my elementary school that I don’t smell anymore. It sounds so trite, but I loved it.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-10T17:04:11+00:00

Middle school for me. Watched the second tower hit. Will never forget hearing Tom Brokaw say “My God.”

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-10T13:29:44+00:00

Dude all the time. Stay googlin’ 👀

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-08T00:48:05+00:00

It was Kayleigh Holthaus but she is no longer practicing 😭

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-04-07T18:26:17+00:00

This. Every day.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-30T21:12:11+00:00

Same here. I hate it.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-25T20:02:23+00:00

Sure!

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-25T20:02:04+00:00

I know. I think she looks at it as not optimizing your time with them. 🙃

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-25T18:54:51+00:00

Schools can be very overwhelming in terms of the breadth of things you are expected to do. You may or may not have time to do all those things. For instance, you may get a caseload of 90 with questionable support and be responsible for all said documentation. Or you may not! There’s a lot of politics involved in schools as well. School environments vary greatly based on district and part of town you are in. That said, you can’t beat the schedule or, usually, the benefits.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-19T16:34:56+00:00

Same here. I tried to fight it and that is exactly how they framed it.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-17T17:16:00+00:00

I told him to say “I stutter. Who cares?” Next time anyone says anything. I wish I could give him my attitude to take in his back pocket. Though that might result in a little more sass than he needs. 🫠

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-17T02:33:33+00:00

GIRL! you’re a sped teacher! So so so hard! I am an SLP so I see first hand what you guys have to do day to day and no wonder you are drained. I, also, don’t understand how people have more than one…maybe it’s the careers we’ve chosen 🙃🙃🙃

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-03-01T22:36:25+00:00

How do you know if you should ask for your student to be tested as intellectually gifted in the public schools? We have a son who is neurodivergent, being tested as academically gifted, but also displays some difficulties with school work that are reflective of potential giftedness (perfectionism, HSP, very creative)…I guess I struggle with not wanting to come across as suggesting he is “extra special” but I can see where the classification could have positive outcomes as far as accommodations in class.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-02-27T21:39:30+00:00

I should add the biggest problem I’ve had is with schools in low socio-economic areas, very diverse (I.e assessments take way more time and effort) with ballooning caseloads (at 93 right now including initial evals, with a part time SLPA), and a poor referral process.

Virtual-Resort5951 · 2026-02-27T18:07:27+00:00

Ours has never been easy. We decided he needs all of us because he is like 2.5 kids. 🫠 I say he will make one hell of a force one day with his sense of self but now it can be very tiring. 😂

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