ABSTRACT
The individual education plan (IEP) was introduced as a mandatory assessment and documentation practice in Swedish schools in January 2006. The parents who participate in the IEP work do so from a particular position where they oscillate between, in some situations, assuming a subjugated role towards the teacher and the school and in other situations functioning as an additional recipient of the pupil's confession and, in this way, playing a clear role in the social fostering of the child. While Carl's mother turns here to the school and to the teacher to demonstrate her frustration and worries about her son, at the same time she places the responsibility for things that are happening, both in school and at home, on herself and her family. confession is seen as a part of the technology of pastoral power that is operational in many different ways.
