Good point about the paper trail. The advocate I talked to suggested email as much as possible so that I have documentation of conversations.

One thing I don't like about email is that teachers seem to forward it on to whoever they feel like forwarding it to without asking or telling me. So what might be meant as private information for them could end up circulated all over the school (or district). Every time I send a message to DS's IEP manager (the SLP for the school) she forwards it to about 5 other people and doesn't even tell me when she's doing this or who is getting the message. Some of the teachers have done this as well. Some of my emails contain personal information about my children that is not meant to be circulated that way.