Dyslexia and Arlington Elementary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools are not equipped to help kids with dyslexia. Teachers don’t receive training in dyslexia (maybe reading specialists, maybe, but you’d have to have them in a dedicated reading remediation class to access them if so). IEPs usually have completely inappropriate goals and supports because again, very few know how to address dyslexia or teach around it. It’s misunderstood and neither teaching programs nor PD actually prepare us for how to support students who have it. You will need OG or Lindamood Bell to see real progress.

-teacher

And teachers could do more in their own classrooms to support all students and give them a better foundation in phonics which would help dyslexic students far more than the current practices. It is possible for teachers to weave this in throughout the day. Also, actually requiring reading in all subject every day would mean that students get far more practice in reading than they do now. Instead of replying back here, why not take some time and give a critical look at what you do each day in the classroom and how you might change things ....

Listen to yourself. Really. Individual teachers cannot be saviors who single handledly serve a child with disabilities in a SYSTEM that is not equipped to properly serve those students. I can do things in my classroom practice all day long that help but will not affect overall outcomes for a student who then continues in the system BEYOND and outside of my classroom and won’t be properly serviced. Please just shut up .

+1

Don’t blame systemic issue on teachers who have little control here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Strategy: Go in super sweet and collaborative as opposed to guns a blazing. You get more with honey.

False. Go in knowing the schools and teachers want to do as little as possible and be very specific in what your kid needs. Also lower your standards or you will be frustrated and disappointed. Hire a private tutor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strategy: Go in super sweet and collaborative as opposed to guns a blazing. You get more with honey.

False. Go in knowing the schools and teachers want to do as little as possible and be very specific in what your kid needs. Also lower your standards or you will be frustrated and disappointed. Hire a private tutor.

Yes but I would add that per the discussion above, the teachers aren’t really trained on this so they just go along with administration to limit services / not recognize dyslexia. I agree private tutoring can be essential (and the threat of legal action against the school will not move the needle).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Strategy: Go in super sweet and collaborative as opposed to guns a blazing. You get more with honey.

Not at M, N, or D. Used to not be at G but maybe it's changed. Suspect this poster doesn't have a child with an learning difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is dyslexic and received excellent care at an APS elementary school. Very friendly IEP process in first grade. I took his testing that APS did to a private evaluator, and she was surprised the evaluation was done by a public school because it is so well-done. He then received OG 2nd-5th grade from very caring, intelligent teachers.

My other child did not have dyslexia but was still struggling with reading in 4th grade. He was pulled out in 2nd grade for individual Reading Recovery, which a reading teacher latter told me wasn’t a good program. He was always at the bottom end of grade level. He was pulled into a small OG group for 4th and 5th grade.

Let me guess: Ashlawn or a lottery school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing that really got me in APS is that they wouldn’t permit us to bring in a private tutor during the day who was willing to meet with my child at lunch. My 3rd grader was not able to handle an hour of tutoring on top of a full school day, but the school was unwilling to give him meaningful interventions.

The reason for this is as follows. If a school allows a private tutor during the school day, it's agreeing that the child needs a special education service (the tutor) and the parents are providing that. However, the law states that the school needs to provide a free and appropriate education. So no, your school is doing FAPE and therefore no tutor is needed.

I do not blame teachers but my anger at APS is horrible. I think I need therapy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is dyslexic and received excellent care at an APS elementary school. Very friendly IEP process in first grade. I took his testing that APS did to a private evaluator, and she was surprised the evaluation was done by a public school because it is so well-done. He then received OG 2nd-5th grade from very caring, intelligent teachers.

My other child did not have dyslexia but was still struggling with reading in 4th grade. He was pulled out in 2nd grade for individual Reading Recovery, which a reading teacher latter told me wasn’t a good program. He was always at the bottom end of grade level. He was pulled into a small OG group for 4th and 5th grade.

Let me guess: Ashlawn or a lottery school.

I would guess ATS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that really got me in APS is that they wouldn’t permit us to bring in a private tutor during the day who was willing to meet with my child at lunch. My 3rd grader was not able to handle an hour of tutoring on top of a full school day, but the school was unwilling to give him meaningful interventions.

The reason for this is as follows. If a school allows a private tutor during the school day, it's agreeing that the child needs a special education service (the tutor) and the parents are providing that. However, the law states that the school needs to provide a free and appropriate education. So no, your school is doing FAPE and therefore no tutor is needed.

I do not blame teachers but my anger at APS is horrible. I think I need therapy.

I was able to let most of my anger go after we settled in well at a private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is dyslexic and received excellent care at an APS elementary school. Very friendly IEP process in first grade. I took his testing that APS did to a private evaluator, and she was surprised the evaluation was done by a public school because it is so well-done. He then received OG 2nd-5th grade from very caring, intelligent teachers.

My other child did not have dyslexia but was still struggling with reading in 4th grade. He was pulled out in 2nd grade for individual Reading Recovery, which a reading teacher latter told me wasn’t a good program. He was always at the bottom end of grade level. He was pulled into a small OG group for 4th and 5th grade.

Let me guess: Ashlawn or a lottery school.

I would guess ATS.

My child is at ATS and is getting great interventions for dyslexia but I'm not the quoted poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that really got me in APS is that they wouldn’t permit us to bring in a private tutor during the day who was willing to meet with my child at lunch. My 3rd grader was not able to handle an hour of tutoring on top of a full school day, but the school was unwilling to give him meaningful interventions.

The reason for this is as follows. If a school allows a private tutor during the school day, it's agreeing that the child needs a special education service (the tutor) and the parents are providing that. However, the law states that the school needs to provide a free and appropriate education. So no, your school is doing FAPE and therefore no tutor is needed.

I do not blame teachers but my anger at APS is horrible. I think I need therapy.

I was able to let most of my anger go after we settled in well at a private.

I'm unemployed and 50K is a lot for a special education. Did you know that the best, most expensive, exclusive schools in NYC cost about 50K? Why do we have to pay what trust-fund people pay? I don't have a trust. I don't have an extra 50K. I'd like to retire on time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public schools are not equipped to help kids with dyslexia. Teachers don’t receive training in dyslexia (maybe reading specialists, maybe, but you’d have to have them in a dedicated reading remediation class to access them if so). IEPs usually have completely inappropriate goals and supports because again, very few know how to address dyslexia or teach around it. It’s misunderstood and neither teaching programs nor PD actually prepare us for how to support students who have it. You will need OG or Lindamood Bell to see real progress.

-teacher

And teachers could do more in their own classrooms to support all students and give them a better foundation in phonics which would help dyslexic students far more than the current practices. It is possible for teachers to weave this in throughout the day. Also, actually requiring reading in all subject every day would mean that students get far more practice in reading than they do now. Instead of replying back here, why not take some time and give a critical look at what you do each day in the classroom and how you might change things ....

HAHAHAHAHA- like we have choices about what we do in the classroom. We do not. We come home and cry because we told to do things that don't work, but we have to do them anyway because someone else said so. I took a leave of absence this year, so yeah I can come and give your uninformed statement a critical look right now......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is dyslexic and received excellent care at an APS elementary school. Very friendly IEP process in first grade. I took his testing that APS did to a private evaluator, and she was surprised the evaluation was done by a public school because it is so well-done. He then received OG 2nd-5th grade from very caring, intelligent teachers.

My other child did not have dyslexia but was still struggling with reading in 4th grade. He was pulled out in 2nd grade for individual Reading Recovery, which a reading teacher latter told me wasn’t a good program. He was always at the bottom end of grade level. He was pulled into a small OG group for 4th and 5th grade.

Let me guess: Ashlawn or a lottery school.

I would guess ATS.

No. A neighborhood school in N Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is dyslexic and received excellent care at an APS elementary school. Very friendly IEP process in first grade. I took his testing that APS did to a private evaluator, and she was surprised the evaluation was done by a public school because it is so well-done. He then received OG 2nd-5th grade from very caring, intelligent teachers.

My other child did not have dyslexia but was still struggling with reading in 4th grade. He was pulled out in 2nd grade for individual Reading Recovery, which a reading teacher latter told me wasn’t a good program. He was always at the bottom end of grade level. He was pulled into a small OG group for 4th and 5th grade.

Let me guess: Ashlawn or a lottery school.

I would guess ATS.

No. A neighborhood school in N Arlington.

So name it. It’s absolutely not McKinley.

[Anonymous]

DC is not dyslexic, but has another learning difference. APS DOES NOT WANT TO HELP YOUR CHILD. MOVE NOW!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is dyslexic and received excellent care at an APS elementary school. Very friendly IEP process in first grade. I took his testing that APS did to a private evaluator, and she was surprised the evaluation was done by a public school because it is so well-done. He then received OG 2nd-5th grade from very caring, intelligent teachers.

My other child did not have dyslexia but was still struggling with reading in 4th grade. He was pulled out in 2nd grade for individual Reading Recovery, which a reading teacher latter told me wasn’t a good program. He was always at the bottom end of grade level. He was pulled into a small OG group for 4th and 5th grade.

Let me guess: Ashlawn or a lottery school.

I would guess ATS.

No. A neighborhood school in N Arlington.

So name it. It’s absolutely not McKinley.

Not Taylor either.