Trust Me??

How many of us have been sitting in an IEP meeting and in an effort to simply get the school to document what was verbally agreed to, gotten one of the following responses:  "You just need to trust that we know what is best."  "We know how to do our jobs.  Trust us."  HA!  Trust is a fragile thing, and once my trust proves to be misplaced, I will NEVER make that same mistake again, period!   I simply explain that it is not a matter of trust (because if it were, we wouldn't NEED the legal document, now would we??), and that it is in everyone's best interest to be as specific as possible so that there are less opportunites for misunderstandings in implementation (which lead to parents involving someone like me).  I may or may not speak the parts in parenthesis, depending on the situation.  ;)  Remember:  "If it wasn't written down, it was not said.  If it wasn't written down, it did not happen."  ~Pete Wright