School has not fully begun until I pull this out of her backpack.
My hands are cramping just thinking about filling it out. This school has finally simplified my life a little by having an enrollment printout instead of making us fill out new ones every year.
Get this: none of these papers to read an/or fill out are IEP related. Those come next month. Excuse me while I go fill in boxes, sign my name and write my address 50 times.
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Ugh – we start school tomorrow, and I am already dreading that pile of papers!
Every thing is about 3 million times more complicated and takes about 5 times as long to get done when you have an IEP or any kind of diagnosis. fun times. Good Luck.
I did those over the summer- otherwise none of the forms are in place on day 1, like when my kid got left in school instead of put on the bus because the staff wasn’t sure what to do and didn’t have a phone number for me!
Also, this year we had to do double forms: the special ed program has its own version of the forms of the host school, but we had to do them both. Fun.
I hear you! I was hoping to spread everything out over a few weeks but, of course, stayed up late last night to plow through.
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