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It takes a team to evaluate the child including the parents, classroom teacher, special education teacher, school psychologist, and administrator. The formal standardized assessments are administered and interpreted by the psychologist and the special education teacher both of whom have been trained to administer and evaluate. Part of the evaluation includes forms filled out by the classroom teacher and the parents. These are interpreted by the psychologist. How it is decided to evaluate can come from a letter written by the parent requesting the evaluation or a classroom teacher who notices a student struggling.

Call the Princpal and have you and your husband go in or you and another family member. I’ve done it. It did no good but you can try.As a parent in a wealthy school district where both parents often have advanced degrees, I found public school to be incredibly invasive. My son, who we didn’t know was very early onset schizophrenia was actually delayed in getting his diagnosis because the school district has a policy of never allowing teachers to fill out their half of the psych evaluation forms. We made it through Kindergarten with the first year teacher bringing in a Special Ed teacher for the December parent teacher conference. I asked why and the teacher told me my son didn’t know all his letter sounds. I started laughing and told her I didn’t know what planet she was on, but he went to three years of Montessori pre-school and knew all his letters and sounds at 3.5. In fact, he could actually READ! The teacher then proceeded to tell me “I probably ruined him” from ever learning to read correctly. I laughed and laughed, told her it wasn’t witchcraft, it was just phonics.By First Grade, (first year teacher again) they were getting much more invasive. I sent in the usual permission form saying that the school could contact son’s doctor for emergency purposes but school nurse lied and said they couldn’t find it. She sends a form home giving the school district permission to obtain my son’s medical records from his pediatrician AND any other doctor mentioned in her notes. As a doctor, there was no way I was giving them his private medical information. Why? For the same reason I wouldn’t give them my tax information. IT’S PRIVATE and none of their darn business. Son tests out for gifted program but they tell me they won’t put him in it even though they test him reading at a 5th grade level. (Remember it was me that taught him to read LOL) The final straw was the school counselor calling me on the phone and saying, “If you won’t tell me your son’s diagnosis from his psychiatric evaluation, I’m going to label him and stick him in Special School District.” I gave her my, “That’s so f ing hysterical crazy laugh” and laughed till I was in tears and gasping for air, which made her so pissed. When she demanded to know why I was laughing, I told her because I’m a doctor and that information is private, and if they wanted to participate in knowing his diagnosis, they should have filled out the form to help him be diagnosed correctly.Next day, personally took in his letter of withdrawal to homeschool him. NEVER in my life thought I’d homeschool, but schools and teachers are out of control. I don’t care what you think about how it’s your job to butt your nose in. It’s your job to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, and nothing else. Turned out my children learned twice as much homeschooling as they ever would have in public school. Teachers get angry that people homeschool but every family I knew that homeschooled had horror stories about public school. The rate of homeschooling is doubling, I think it’s every seven years. My advice…Order the book, “The Well Trained Mind” from Amazon, then order the catalog from “Rainbow Resource Center” with both you can homeschool your child for an Ivy League Education and both of you will have more fun doing it. There’s a new path to Harvard and it’s not in a classroom

There are many good teachers that support their unions. Further, your assertions that unions will protect and defend poor teachers, resist more of a free-market approach to teacher compensation, and generally prefer the status quo as it relates to the regulation of the profession, are all correct. Why? Because that is what unions do; they unequivocally support the rights of all workers.The problem is that unions have traditionally been formed to protect the rights of unskilled workers. Teaching is one of the few professions that still has unions, and the historical need for unions in teaching has its roots in what has traditionally been an under-appreciated, underpaid, and largely feminine workforce. Even though teachers do have considerably more specialized knowledge and skills than most non-educators realize, this perception that anyone can teach has led to teachers being treated less as professionals, and more as semi-skilled workers. Thus the need for unions.However, the teaching profession is really at a cross-roads. The continued focus on education is unlikely to dissipate in the future, and given that a vast majority of educators work in the public sector, the unions are going to continue to lose traction. If teachers want to have a future in which they engage in the same activities as other professionals (setting criteria for admission to the profession, contributing to the regulation of the profession, etc.), then teachers will need to begin to assume some of the risk that other professions have taken.No evaluation system is perfect; but as long as unions continue to advocate for what amounts to an absence of accountability, policy-makers will continue to act unilaterally. I would suggest that if teachers formed a professional organization (like the AMA or ABA), perhaps teachers could participate in policy-making around teacher evaluation, instead of resisting an inevitable trend towards greater top-down regulation.