My Inner City School :/

[5ndime]

Okay sooo..... I love where I work. I teach in a gen ed room with a couple of kids with IEPs. The kids are great. My coworkers are great and they are some of the best people that I know. What frustrates me the most is that I feel like I get zero guidance from the child study team. For example, I have one student who has obvious attention and learning difficulties, and the child study team has been adamantly ignoring my requests to have him evaluated. I think that with Covid and with the number of teachers that are on maternity leave, the child study team does not want anymore cases. I am sure that this wont last but it is extremely frustrating. I want the best for my students and this one student in particular, would benefit tremendously if he was taken out of my class even two or three times a week with a resource teacher.
Has anyone had a similar experience?

 

[FlyersFan79]

Okay sooo..... I love where I work. I teach in a gen ed room with a couple of kids with IEPs. The kids are great. My coworkers are great and they are some of the best people that I know. What frustrates me the most is that I feel like I get zero guidance from the child study team. For example, I have one student who has obvious attention and learning difficulties, and the child study team has been adamantly ignoring my requests to have him evaluated. I think that with Covid and with the number of teachers that are on maternity leave, the child study team does not want anymore cases. I am sure that this wont last but it is extremely frustrating. I want the best for my students and this one student in particular, would benefit tremendously if he was taken out of my class even two or three times a week with a resource teacher.
Has anyone had a similar experience?

I used to work in a rough school in Chicago but that was many years ago and the corona virus has really put a strain on us educators.
Gang in there. I know that it is not easy. You sound like a great teacher with a lot of heart, and that in the end will pay off. Your student sounds like he is lucky to have you.

 

[simplelife7]

I feel for you. I think that this pandemic has just burned out teachers, admin, child study team, counselors, basically everyone down. No one wants to take on anymore work than they feel like they have to. It does not make it right, but I have heard of similar concerns in other school districts.

 

[wildkingdom]

Unfortunately this is a nationwide problem. I think that the problem is adequate resources and professional development for teachers. Special education is just generally not a very well understood practice in terms of the learning materials, strategies, etc.