Do Parents Have the Option of Consenting to the Individual Annual Goals in Their Child's IEP?

According to Parents Rights in Special Education (Procedural Safeguards) distributed by South Carolina's Office of Exceptional Children at the State Department of Education, parents provide consent only for placement and services including supplemental aids and services, in the IEP. They do not have the option of consenting to the individual annual goals in the IEP. Parents should consider which individual services they wish to consent to; the annual goals are the method for measuring the progress made by the provision of the services. Parents may revoke consent for some services and not others, but need to realize that when they revoke consent for a service, they have also eliminated the goal(s) that would have measured progress for that service.