Parents are my favorite people

I love my parents, I really honestly do! They are some of the best people I work with, next to their kids. Over the years we build great bonds. Sometimes though I really have to question what my parents were thinking. Here are two cases of that.

I received a fax from a doctor’s office this morning. Telling me that a parent would like her child evaluated for an IEP and exactly what I need to do to accommodate this parent. 

Funny thing is.. Parent has already signed consent for me to test her son and I called her Friday, left a message to schedule his initial conference to go over test results.

I got to talk to said parent today.  When I give her the dates that we can meet and we agree to the date. She says, Do I have to come to school for that?

I recently had a parent email me requesting a case conference for her son. She wanted to talk with his teachers as they didn’t know how to teach a child with ADHD.

I set the meeting up per parent request. The day before the conference at 4:00 the parent sends me a 40 page book with the following request. Please pass this along to teachers as I would like to discuss this book at the meeting the next day.

So I sent the book to the teachers explaining moms request. At the meeting, parent references only one page of the book. Turns out her son wasn’t telling her everything like she thought.