“...litigious parents.”
Most IEP parents in my part of the world don’t know how much legal power they have over the local school. Our school had to pay a dad to bring his kid to school every day because we didn’t have a wheelchair-friendly bus. One of our 14 year olds (IEP) threatened to come to school and shoot the superintendent. He was suspended, but only for a limited time, because he has an IEP.
Oh yes. The IEP is the academic equivalent of Diplomatic Immunity. They told us a few years ago that a parent of a special ed kid could sue individual teachers and take their retirement. I don’t know if that was just a wild threat to terrorize us into passing their kids or not, but it worked. I can’t express my relief that I’m getting out now.