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Parents you need to remember there are many other students in your child's regular education class who may have learning needs to such as ESOL and those in the middle average students who just could use a bit of one-on-one personal push, but do not quite have the scores to even merit an individualized look.  You are not wrong to want the best for your individual child, but do recognize the demands across the board and also "the right" of each child in the classroom to a FAPE.

OP is there any model within the school where your son could be pulled out for language arts to a small, self-contained setting with a Resource Teacher?  Your son is a classic example of the problem with today's education, his IEP places him on one level of reading and writing which is usually the appropriate one given the disability; while the classroom goals or state policy say "All children will....... and so he is trying to keep up on two different planes of learning, which is just very hard to do.  And again if the testing is on grade level in terms of reading and related skills, of course he may fail them if has not reached those benchmarks in his core skills.  It is a lot of needless pressure on a students wo can learn and master the skills but at a slower pace.[/quote]

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