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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A science of reading approach will be very beneficial to a child with dyslexia. The school wants to see if your child will make progress before recommending an IEP.[/quote]

School districts often slow roll these. It’s BS to say they want to see if progress. That shouldn’t matter if the kid has a need[/quote]

It’s the special education law. Schools cannot just label all kids as disabled. Schools also can’t just take all kids out of the general education setting (least restrictive environment). Schools do want to help. There are different systems in place for support besides special education. [/quote]

I agree that schools do generally want to help, but parents also shouldn't have to fight tooth and nail to get services that work for a kid with a disability. Dyslexia IS a disability, and kids who have it won't just learn from the normal classroom instruction like other kids (or they probably already would have!). Even if a kid is miraculously just a slow learner (because why? ELL student? Out for illness for an extended period?), they obviously need targeted and effective intervention to learn to read, and good instruction for dyslexic students would also help them. Worst case scenario, they would end up learning super fast and breeze through it because they don't have dyslexia, and then they'd be back in the classroom with the other kids ASAP.

It's not like parents whose kids aren't struggling are begging for intense pull-out reading instruction for a kid who is several years behind grade level. [b]I just don't understand why there's such reticence. I get that resources are limited, and that needs to be solved.[/b] It's the kids with the least privilege and opportunities who will lose our no matter what if the right supports aren't available.

I am also not a fan of the idea that kids need to be mainstreamed all the time. The concept was good because kids were unfairly being assumed to be dumb and incapable and were funneled away from real academics and opportunities. But now it has swung so far the other way that kids who have real needs can't actually get them met because they are mainstreamed, and the parents who can afford it are, ironically, taking their kids out of public and moving to privates focused on those disabilities. Both of my kids have disabilities but very different ones, and I see this happening with both disabilities. The parents know the mainstream classroom isn't really good for their kids.[/quote]

Then you do get why schools are so reticent; you just don’t like it. You should know that schools get into trouble if they identify too many kids as having special needs. My school was tools we were finding too many kids from a specific ethnic group eligible, so we had to pump the breaks had and give extra interventions to make sure we were being equitable. Schools’ special Ed medics are very closely scrutinized. [/quote]

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