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You need to list on your parent concerns "failure to respond to communication from parent." Call your state department of education and ask what you can do when the school is refusing to communicate with you. The fact that they won't tell you who was on the team that developed the initial IEP without you and without sending a meeting notification to you is a GREAT example to tell the state, since this is COMPLETELY unacceptable. As far as your concern about not signing the IEP, since this IS an initial IEP (if I'm reading your post correctly), you probably (check with your state) have to sign it in order for your student to receive services. I understand that services at this point at the middle school level are meaningless, but from a practical standpoint, I would sign it and list all the things you disagree with on the signature page or reference an attached page. The IEP can ALWAYS be changed when the high school team is put in place. If you really don's want to sign, call the state and ask what the consequence will be. I would even tell them that the school district told their state facilitator that there would be "dire consequences" and you would like to know what that means. *See Lisa's post below regarding signing the IEP. I didn't read through all of it, so I'm not sure if she addresses initial IEP's. Are any of the "administrators" the director of special education? If not, I think it's time to get him/her involved. Start copying them on all your correspondence AND forward them all correspondence to which you have not received a response. Also, to make sure you hit the ground running in high school, ask the director who you need to contact to schedule a meeting with the high school IEP team and when can that occur - the end of this school year, the beginning of next school year? Your problem may be a "building" problem - that is, the middle school is just trying to "wait it out" until the student goes to high school. You might have better luck with the high school IEP team. I would still suggest, as I did in an earlier post, to request an IEE so that you can gather more recent data over the summer in preparation to discuss the IEP for the high school years. It also gives you an excuse, if you need one, to schedule a meeting with the high school team. https://adayinourshoes.com/sign-the-iep/