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NEW AND REVISED AND EVEN BETTER CONSENT
FORM (in brief)
- Dear________________________:
- (Parent)
We want to do a case study evaluation on your
child because he/she is evidently having B-I-G trouble at
school. He/She can't (check all that apply)
______ read
______ write
______ do math
______ go potty alone
______ play without biting someone (often a child, occasionally a teacher)
______ all of the above
We want to find out why your child is such a mess.
We suspect that it may be your fault, but need to know for sure. A
whole bunch of professional people are going to spend hours and hours
and hours with you and your child, pulling him/her out of class
frequently so they can get even further behind with their work,
pulling you out of your job so that you can get even further and
further behind with your work, and generally disrupting your schedule
and your life.
Eventually, we will get done. Don't ask us when,
because we don't really know. Honestly, we are doing the best we can
with a small and frustrated staff who have no office space in the
schools and who, therefore, must test your child in the Janitor's
broom closet or in the parking lot. If you fuss about how long it
takes, we may cry.
When we do get done, we'll meet with you at school
at a mutually inconvenient time. There will be 172 sheets of paper on
the table, and we will pass it around, and around, and around, and
you will get to sign it again, and again. You might get dizzy. If
yours is the last meeting of the day, the staff will definitely be
dizzy. We'll make an attempt to explain everything to you at this
meeting. Don't worry if you don't understand all the big words, we
don't understand all of them either, but they sure look impressive in
the form, don't they?
At the end of all this, we'll all understand why
your child is in B-I-G trouble at school and we'll have some
new and exciting ideas for you and the teachers to try out. And,
we'll all live happily ever after (until time for the re-evaluation,
when the entire process starts again).
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Sign Here
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Sign here again, to show you really meant it last time you signed
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Social Security #
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Public Aid/Green Card #
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Insurance Policy #
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Master Card #
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Permission to attach lien on your home
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