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A person in my department is being pressured by the family of a SpEd student
to give a recommendation for an elite professional school. This student has
been provided with an enormous amount of support and her IEP's water down
even some of the basic skills and principles of the classes involved. Sadly, the
administration is terrified of the parents because one is a well connected
lawyer.

This student, who I have also had in class, has a low IQ, is limited in every
aspect of reading, writing and speaking. In addition the student has other
disorders which her parents have taken pains to avoid revealing to the student
who is now nearly 18. The parents have basically demanded every kind of
implementation available, to the point of even threatening standardized
testing organizations if they don't allow the student to exercise all of the IEP
demands that include extended time, access to dictionary and more. They
didn't ask me for a recommendation because I was very straightforward about
this student's abilities. The teacher in my department is a very sweet lady who
is dealing with a number of personal issues and the family and administration
are using this opportunity to bully her into a recommendation. So LEGALLY,
can the administration force the teacher to do this?

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