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IEP Summary Letter Can Help You Win a Special Education Dispute With Your School District!

As a parent and special educational advocate for over 20 years I get frustrated by the treatment of parents by school personnel. This frustration becomes acute at individual educational plan (IEP) meetings when I experience the intimidation and retaliation that many parents also experience. I was recently advocating in a southern Illinois town for a young man with Autism when my frustration began to bubble over. After I calmed myself down after the meeting, I began writing a letter to the special education personnel in the school district where I attended the IEP meeting, for the parents. I documented things that were said, the nasty attitudes of the special education personnel, and the federal special education laws that I found were not complied with. I was pleasantly surprised when the next meeting seemed to be less contentious and more productive.

I realized that IEP summary letters could be used by all parents to document things that happen at meetings. You could document comments made by a special education person, you could document denials for needed services, or violations of IDEA 2004. Documentation is critical to win any dispute between yourself and special education personnel. This type of letter can be used at a due process hearing or a complaint to win a dispute with your school district.

Below are 9 things to include in your summary letter:

1. Name and address of your school districts special education director.

2. Date of the letter.

3. Begin your letter with “This letter is to clarify and discuss what happened at the IEP meeting of ___________(Date).

4. Use quotes as much as possible; “Mr. R. stated that ESY can only be given to a child that has regressed after a break or summer vacation.” This is not consistent with IDEA 2004, and the summary letter allows you to document what was said and the noncompliance with federal special education law.

5. Any important discussions that were not included in the IEP notes; such as your child’s behavior or specific related or special education services that you believe your child needs. Readdress your position on services that your child needs that the school refuses to provide.

6. Discuss what services and placement that you agreed upon, and also any services or placement that you did not agree upon.

7. Ask for PWN (prior written notice) on any service or placement that the school wants to give your child that you disagree with, or any service or placement that you believe your child needs and the school refuses to give them.

8. As much as possible quote IDEA 2004 or State Special Education Law to document any violations that the school personnel committed during the IEP meeting.

9. Type your name and address and below this place your child’s name, birth date, grade and school of attendance. Include this statement: Please keep a copy of this letter in my child’s educational record per FERPA (FERPA is the federal educational records law).

At the beginning of the meeting set a blank piece of paper next to you. Use this paper to put anything that is said or done, that you would like to put in your letter. Add an IEP summary letter to your other advocacy skills, and you may begin to see positive changes in your child’s IEP meetings. I have said for many years that schools get away with the horrible treatment of parents because of lack of accountability; this letter could force accountability on your school district, and change all that for you! Good Luck.

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You Too Can Be a Millionaire Real Estate Investor

LET’S BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING
An artist once said, “To paint the perfect painting, first live the perfect life, and then just paint naturally.” The message here in your new found career as a real estate investor might be translated like this: “In order to make the perfect real estate investments, first live the perfect real estate investor’s life, and then just invest naturally.”

Notice the emphasis here is on living the kind of life, if not perfect, then at least the kind that is most appropriate to the activity you intend to pursue. Another way to look at this is to say those who are most successful are those who already are living most successfully. Success breeds success. If you’re going to play the part, you should already be living the part. A lot of how successful you’re going to become is based on how successful you already appear to be. There’s still a lot of truth in the old-fashioned idea that, to get a new job, first go out and buy yourself a new suit.

If you don’t communicate to the world that you’re already successful (even if you’re not there yet), then you at least need to communicate to the world that you’re already in business. How you do that is outlined in my text entitled “100% Financing When Buying Real Estate.”

BE A SEASONED REAL ESTATE INVESTOR RIGHT FROM THE START
At the moment you may very well be working full-time (40-50 hours per week) for somebody else. You may be working overtime, or even two jobs, just to be able to pay all your bills. So right from the beginning you don’t have much time to spend as a real estate investor. Believe it or not, this puts you in exactly the same “shape” as the most successful investors! As you can well believe, the whole idea of becoming emmensely successful is to be able to spend most of your time (40-50 hours per week) doing something else. Like enjoying yourself, partaking more in family life, or traveling extensively for pleasure. So your task at hand is to replace your current full-time job with forthcoming full-time pleasure, and in the meantime live just like a successful real estate investor does.

The successful, or seasoned, investor in real estate spends his or her minimum investing time in the most productive ways possible-just like you should. This seasoned professional has all the knowledge, all the tools, and all the experience needed to invest profitably and successfully. The very reason why you’re reading this text is to acquire the same knowledge that most of these others have only gained through experience. Hence, this is a shortcut to success as a real estate investor. You’ll acquire the knowledge you need in just a few weeks, instead of several years. Armed with this knowledge, you’ll easily be able to acquire the right tools, and your first experience should be positive. After that, it should become even more so, building your confidence as you experience continued success based on the knowledge you acquire right here, right now.

The first thing to do then is to act the part of a seasoned real estate investor. An important part of that is having the knowledge-which you are acquiring-about creative real estate financing, as, say for example, “100% Financing When Buying Real Estate.” My real estate investment course teaches you many ways to do exactly that, and you should review this material often as you begin and continue to invest in income producing real estate.

One of the most important parts of this material that you should begin immediately to absorb, and review continuously until you’ve mastered all the terms, in the glossary of my text, “100% Financing When Buying Real Estate.” The first thing anyone needs to learn when taking on a new role in life is the language of that role and/or that career. Ask any Shakespearean actor, for example. Thus the sooner you learn the lingo of real estate investing, the sooner you can present yourself as a seasoned real estate investor. So please be sure to purchase my text entitled, “100% Financing When Buying Real Estate.”

10 Reasons To Start A Home Based Business

1) Time Freedom – L.O.V.E. is spelled T.I.M.E. For most people, they go to work in order to pay the bills and don’t even get to see their family. With time freedom, think about what you can actually do with your family or close friends. Would you go to the beach or travel to another country? How would you spend time with your family? Think about this.. you can replace money but cannot replace time. Most people work all their lives and never really get to do the things they’ve always wanted to do. By having a successful home based business, you can finally have all the time you want to do all the things you are truly passionate about and with the people you love most.2) Financial Independence – Speaking of replacing money, do you know what residual income is? Residual income is doing something one time and getting paid over and over and over again for life. And how would you feel if you received so much residual income you didn’t have to go to work anymore, worry about paying your house, groceries, and paying off your car note? You’d feel amazing, right?Because you’d be free.. financially free. With a home based business there is unlimited income potential.3) Work Your Own Hours – You can start part time even if you’re still at your job. Then when your residual income surpasses your monthly income, you can now fire your boss.4) Be Your Own Boss – Work when you want, where you want, and if you want. What more can I say. You are the boss.5) Work From Anywhere In The World – Imagine working in your shorts from home. I meant the office. No, what I really meant was the beach. Truth is, you can work anywhere in the world with just having a cell phone and a laptop.6) Choose To Work Independently Or With A Team – You can choose whether to work by yourself or with a team. You’re in a business for yourself but never by yourself. You can create the environment you want by choosing the people you want to work with.7) Create Long Term Wealth – Generational Wealth. Heard of it? All successful millionaires and billionaires have generational wealth. It’s where their money makes more money onto the next generation and even the next generation after that. You can change your family’s finances and create long term wealth through a home based business.8) Low Start Up Cost – Compared to a franchise business like McDonald’s (which takes about $1.5 million to start up), you can buy a into a proven system that will allow you to leverage both your time, effort, and money. But instead, when starting up you only invest a couple hundred to a couple of thousand dollars into a home based business.9) Tax Advantages – Just by having a home based business, you will get to experience the same tax advantages as the wealthy. That also means you get a lot more money back which is usually more than you initially invested into the business.”Having a home based business is one of the best tax strategies ever.”-In the Tax Times newspaper”Why you would be brain dead not to start a home based business (if you don’t already have one).”-In Lower Your Taxes – BIG TIME by former IRS attorney Sandy Botkin10) Give Back/Help Others – Home based businesses can allow you to donate to charities, good causes, churches, volunteer work and help build communities. Also with a home based business in itself, you are helping people everywhere and changing the world.

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