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[quote=Anonymous]   Yes, I'm being dramatic. The area of academics where my child with autism is gifted is math. While he needed every kind of therapy from toddlerhood, he fell in love with numbers and math before he could hold a conversation and he can handle complex calculations without explaining how. We are working hard to make sure he develops the social skills he needs to hopefully one day contribute to society and live independently. He has an IEP and private services to help him reach benchmark in the areas where he struggles. Sadly, the common core math is sucking the love, confidence and motivation right out of him. Sure we can get accommodations for the endless writing involved, but this one size fits all crap is moronic. I'll be lucky if I can get him through highschool if something doesn't change and this kid is in the top 1 percentile for math abilities and non-verbal reasoning.

How do I protest this? Most of America is furious and it seems complaining to the school board goes nowhere. I think a congressman or senator is suing. Should we all get signs and protest outside the department of education? What will it take? [/quote]

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