Schools don't seem to think laws apply to them and/or are completely sure that their odd interpretation is the right one.
I also think that sometimes schools are stretched to provide services to all the students who need them, and an environment arises in which school staff think that by telling parents things aren't "so" they can dissuade parents from advocating further. This happened to us at our elementary school - in a big way. I often suspected that if you were able to talk to the same teachers/staff outside of the bounds of the relationships that you have re an IEP, you'd find what the teachers/staff had to say (and truly believed) were very different than the front that's put up in preparing IEPs.
This also isn't true at all schools - I know from the online research and reading I've done over the years (including here) that there are a lot of schools that truly do care about providing services for the students who need them.
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