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Sage advice. Too many schools are still using these ineffective practices. Boon is an awesome non-profit providing training scholarships to educators.

They say you’re “difficult” because it’s easier than admitting the truth:
you’re the only one in the room holding the full weight of your child’s reality.

“Difficult” is the word they reach for when a parent won’t nod along.
When you ask the questions they hoped you wouldn’t.
When you refuse to accept the version of your child that fits neatly into their paperwork.

“Difficult” is what they call you when you won’t shrink.
When you won’t be soothed, silenced, or managed.
When you won’t let them turn your child’s struggle into your fault.

Because the moment you stop being quiet, the moment you stop being grateful for scraps, the moment you stop absorbing the system’s failings as your own…
you become inconvenient.

And inconvenient parents get labelled “difficult”.

But here’s the truth they never say out loud:

You’re not difficult.
You’re determined.
You’re informed.
You’re exhausted.
You’re done being dismissed.

And every time they try to make you the problem, it’s because they don’t want to look at the real one.

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Let’s stop pretending this is a funding issue.

State and districts sign legal assurances every year that they are implementing IEPs as written, delivering specially designed instruction, and providing FAPE.

That’s how they get the money.

So when you hear, “we don’t have funding for that,” what they’re really saying is we’re not doing what we already said we would do. The funding doesn’t come after compliance.
It comes because they certified compliance.

This isn’t a budget problem.
It’s an accountability problem.

Why Does Fluent Reading Matter? – National Center on Improving Literacy Fluency with text is the ability to read words, phrases, sentences, and stories accurately, with enough speed, and expression.