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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Umm, I used the 'counseling out' term and [b]posted about SN kids being asked to leave Oyster.[/b] I'm not the Oyster stalker, whoever(s) that is. I'm more of an 'SN Advocate' - you can find my posts all over the SN board.

I'm not sure why 'counseling out' would be a private school only term if Oyster can ask SN kids to leave (and go to a monolingual school in the system). Doesn't 'counseling out' just mean being asked to leave a school? Not 'expelled', [b]just suggested that "this isn't working for you", "we can't serve your child", and "we hope you will take the hint and leave"[/b].....

Charter schools can't do this -- when they did, years ago, there was a lot of complaints/upheaval around it. But Oyster still can.

Pressuring people to leave a school is often an easier path than working with a family to meet a child's special needs. It would also probably boost test scores. [/quote]

You post that Oyster can pressure kids to leave.  What exactly is that based on?  Are you the "I heard it on the playground poster" or are you aware of actual litigation or complaints to the ombudsman or instructional superintendent or OSSE?  Are you aware of OSSE due process hearings for OA students?

I ask because I am an Oyster parent, a parent of a kid with an IEP and significant LDs, and someone who works full time in the developmental disabilities field, and I simply haven't heard of the stuff that you are alleging.  I will tell you that in my field, virtually everything that happens to move the needle has been driven by litigation (e.g. Evans lawsuit in DC, DRO class action in Ohio, Commonwealth/DOJ settlement in VA), so I'm pretty sure you that if Oyster were pressuring kids to leave due to SN, there would be some litigation (we wouldn't have hesitated to sue after exhausting other remedies, for example).

I DO know of several kids who left Adams because they couldn't do the work in Spanish, but none of them happened to be SN kids. If a SN kid left Oyster because s/he was unable to do the work or follow what was going on in class in Spanish, would you claim that was because they were "counseled out" as SN kids or would you acknowledge that the issue was Spanish?

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