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Common Core doesn't allow for that. You meet the standard -- or else you are a failure.[/quote]
If a child, SN or not, did not meet some standard pre CC standards, did that make that child a failure?  My child is not very athletic and usually gets a bad grade in PE.  Should I rail against the PE standards?  Should PE standards be reduced so that un-athletic children don't fail it?[/quote]

Nobody fails PE these days. It's pass fail. But when an academic system is set up against you, and you go in every day and fail, how do you think that feels?

My kid went from being on a graduation track to now thinking he won't graduate from high school. Common Core is a dead end for 90 of special ed students. [/quote]
That's my point.  Just because a child doesn't meet some standards, it doesn't mean they are a failure, which is what the PP above was stating.  In our school district (ES), kids still get a grade in PE, not your standard A/F grade, but still, a standards based grade that is not just pass/fail.  When my kid gets a bad grade in PE, yep, he feels bad.  But, I let him know that he's good in other things, and yea, he's got athletic challenges, but just keep trying.

So, if your HSer (I assume your DC is in HS since you stated he was on track to graduate), then you know that when he gets to college, he will be facing even more language challenges.[/quote]

College you have a lot more control over. You pick where you go, what you study, what classes you take.

[/quote]I don't know what college you are thinking about, but the ones I know in the US make you take GE type classes your first year or two, English and other liberal arts type subjects.[/quote]

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