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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who are suddenly taking on the fight of SN students ...

My kid with an IEP wanted to go to SWW. Scored high on the exam (we sought and got scores), had great grades. Was inexplicably cut after interview.

We sought advice from a well know attorney who has successfully fought DCPS for years. He said we had no case. No student has a right to a specialized program. Because DCPS would serve my kid in our neighborhood school they can make exclusions, even under IDEA.

I hope Patterson gets somewhere with this. Back when we applied the principal clearly said that students with IEPs or 504s were expected to ‘keep up.’ Well, duh. And there is no reason that many kids with IEPs can’t.

It isn’t a clear cut matter. [/quote]

Still, the fact remains that excluding students with IEPs is one reason Banneker's test scores look good.  Why that should "earn" them anything is a mystery.  It isn't something to be proud of.[/quote]

1) [b]You cannot assume that students with IEP applying to an application school, and meet all of the academic criteria for admission, would bring down the test scores at all. SN is not a synonym for low academic achievement. [/b]

2) None of the application schools have large percentages of students with IEPs.

3) None of the application schools are supposed to know whether a student has disabilities or not when applying. They certainly don't for students applying from outside DCPS. That is the part that is worth exploring -- are they somehow accessing that data inappropriately (that's why I'd kill the interviews and base admissions on test scores and teacher recs only).

4) ALL the application schools have significant attrition from one grade to the next. The size of the 9th-grade classes and then the size of that class when they graduate is quite smaller (except if they admit a significant number at 10th, in which case the drop out/counsel out rate is hidden).

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Excluding students with IEPs reduces work for the administration and teachers and makes it easier to operate the school.  Not something to be proud of.[/quote]

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