IEPs and Self Advocacy

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IEPs and Self Advocacy

• What Dr. Suess Would of Could of Said
• By
• Anonymous
• Updated by Jim Martin

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Do you like IEPs?
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I do not like these IEPs
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I do not like them, Jeeze Louise
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We test, we check
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But nothing ever seems complete.
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Students come but usually just stare, There has
to be another way to do these IEPs.
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Where is the student in these IEPs?They sit in
the back scratching their hair.
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Could you all meet here or there? We could not
all meet here or there.
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We cannot all fit anywhere. Not in a room Not
in the hall
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There seems to be no space at all. Would you,
could you meet again? I cannot meet again next
week No lunch, no prep But the student still
does not fret.
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No, not at dusk. No, not at dawn At 4 pm I
should be gone. Could you hear while the
students speak out?
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Would you write the words students spout?
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I could not hear, I would not write This does
not need to be a fight. Sign here, date there,
Mark this, check that Thats How Its used to
Be Yes sir ree!!
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Now students are beginning to ad-vo-cate. They
are finally telling us this and that.
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They talk about their disability And their
ability.
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Some students tell us their goals.Other claim
they have fallen in holes.Are they truthful, I
dont know.They are just trying understand
rather than hide like a mole.
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Self-advocaters talk to their teachersTo obtain
their own modificators and accomodaters.
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You will see that student-directed IEPs takes no
more time than than those done by me.
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Say! I like these IEPs when kids step-in.Now
the IEP Meeting is the way it ought to be.
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Ill teach, and teach, and teach my students to
self-advocate!Self-advocators, self-advocators,
my I sure do love self-advocators.