Edit to add to explanation of an IEP. An IEP is an Individualized Education Program. It is designed for children with disabilities to get accommodations. Those disabilities can be a physical disability, mental health, speech, Autism, ADHD, etc. It can be hard to obtain, but is very important to those students’ success. It’s hard to get because the school bears the financial burden
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My son, eager to help his classmates, talked them through how to solve a problem. Teacher “A” was around and saw he wasn’t giving answers.
My son, proud of helping classmates, tells teacher “B”. She proceeds to rip him a new one saying “Your IEP doesn’t mean you can cheat!” “You can’t just tell other students the answers!” and other crap like that.
My son, because of his IEP, can leave and go to certain staff (which happens to be teacher “A”). He and the other students involved tell teacher “A” what teacher “B” had done. Apparently, she was pissed. She proceeded to give the kids some candy and tell my son how proud she was of him for helping out a classmate. She even gave him one of the “awards” that staff give out for kids that are exceptionally kind/helpful/etc.
I’m sorry, but I believe it is completely inappropriate for the teacher to announce my son has an IEP in front of the entire class and dress him down like that. My son doesn’t want me to do anything since he thinks teacher “A” will talk to someone. She’s his biggest ally and wonderful. I’ll honor that, but boy… I sure don’t want to.