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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
  That's right. And I know scores of other parents who tell the exact same story.  Because of the lack of scaffolding in Common Core, there was nothing to support the leap. So he was expected, with his 2nd grade reading skills, to automatically be reading 6th grade texts which are now more like 8th grade texts (because CCS also jumped up the reading levels overnight.) It's a fucking disaster.[/quote]

What does his IEP say about his reading instruction?   That is where the scaffolding skills are supposed to be documented.

IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Act) requires that his IEP state grade level standards (as the eventual goal)   But then the special education teachers are supposed to break down the needed steps and identify the intermediary steps he is tp meet, to progress toward that grade level goal.

THAT is where the scaffolding is supposed to take place.   In the IEP, NOT in the Common Core standards.

[b]IDEA and NCLB also mandate that your child must take state tests,[/b] the same as every other student, whether with disabilities or not.[/quote]

My state had 5 levels of state tests. Yes, my son took one of them. Arne Duncan and the DOE has ordered most of them to be abolished. Only 1 percent of students in a school will be able to take alternate assessments. So in my son's school, that would be 6 students. He won't be among them. My son will now be tested at 5 levels above his learning level. [/quote]

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