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[quote=Anonymous]I found the following two paragraphs -- one from each article -- to be thought-provoking:

[quote]"Historically, DCPS has not done a spectacular job of providing great general education for students," Beers said. "If you get to middle school and are reading at a third- and fourth-grade level and you don't know what's going on in the class because you can't keep up with the content, you act out behaviorally. Then you get identified as a student who has emotional disabilities when the reality is that we didn't provide the upfront education." [/quote]

[quote]4. Students with disabilities were placed in a remedial classroom set up for students who are at risk of academic failure but not for students with disabilities (entitled the Targeted Intervention Program –TIP). These students did not appear to receive specialized instruction hours for reading prescribed in their IEPs, [/quote]

Here's a thought:  Perhaps some of those middle schoolers reading at a third- and fourth-grade level who have been misidentified as disabled turned up at BASIS DC, and the staff at BASIS recognized that, rather than suffering from emotional or learning disabilities, these students needed remedial instruction.[/quote]

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