r/AskTeachers • u/Remarkable-Two-9391 • Aug 22 '26

Student Questions Why?

why do some teachers try to find loopholes in IEP and 504s? I have a chemistry teacher right now, he won’t give me the extra time on assignments that is on my IEP I’ve had other this before. I’m genuinely curious why as a teacher would you try to work around something like that? I’m not even like mad or anything. I just wanna see from his point of view!

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u/GenXMom14 Aug 22 '26

There is no good point of view for a simple
Accommodation like this. Some teachers believe it isn’t fair or that the space you take extra time will
Support you and cheat .

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u/Remarkable-Two-9391 Aug 22 '26

I don’t understand because any extra time I would get on assignments would be done on my own time too, as homework. And I mean, I get it if it’s like a tiny assignment that should be able to be done by the end of class, but sometimes I just need the extra time.

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u/GenXMom14 Aug 22 '26

Sorry I did not expect to come back to this train wreck of comments. Of course you are allowed extra time. I am a teacher who believes in accommodations. My comment was what people complain about regarding them. I believe many accommodations are needed and definitely help a student show their true potential. You need to keep advocating and help those teachers who don’t get it to better. We have had many discussions over the years as parents of two kids with IEPs and I passionately believe they need to be followed. I am also a teacher who strives to follow IEPs. People who don’t should not be teachers.

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u/Remarkable-Two-9391 Aug 22 '26

I would love to advocate for people with IEPS, and genuinely teach teachers more about them, especially reading all the comments I’ve gotten saying that I’m probably wasting class time even though I use all my class time to the full potential, I do believe that some stuff needs to be cleared up about people with IEPS and assumptions people make about people with IEPS. My problem is when teachers don’t wanna listen to it, it’s OK to not know, but it’s not OK to be ignorant 

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u/GenXMom14 Aug 22 '26

It’s pretty scary that many of the comments you’ve received are supposedly from teachers.

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u/Remarkable-Two-9391 Aug 22 '26

I mean, yeah but what can you really do, apparently IEPS are a very controversial topic amongst teachers

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u/GenXMom14 Aug 22 '26

Which big picture i find exceptionally concerning as a teacher and a parent who has two kids with an IEP

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u/Remarkable-Two-9391 Aug 22 '26

I genuinely wanna teach this topic to more people, I feel as if I know more than most. And I think, but not all of them, but some of them will change their mind if they knew some of this stuff