The law also requires schools to follow many other procedures to protect the rights of the students. All compliance must be documented on paper. Carrying out the law has resulted in too much paper work. Each district is required to develop a detailed written plan for implementing the law.
Most states have ten to fifteen required forms regularly used to document compliance with the law.
In one school district up to 17 different forms are completed on each child in special education. A file on a child in the special education system can be 3 to 6 inches thick. All actions must be documented. Copy machines are running continuously. Mounds of paper clutter every special education office in the land.