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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 61 pages of how LCPS fails to do many things for Black and Hispanic students such as provide access to higher levels of curriculum and gifted courses. They are disciplined and referred to sped at higher rates . YES that is all impacting their ability to get into an advanced high school later on. Argue with your mom about it. https://www.loudountimes.com/news/virginia-attorney-general-s-office-finds-reasonable-cause-of-discrimination-within-loudoun-county-public-schools/article_1fb1d100-2b4a-11eb-b326-f79c30dc79b2.html[/quote]

Referred to SPED at a higher rate? That's the first time I've heard that. And why would that be bad? If there is a learning disability, the school would identify it through that process and provide needed services. If there's no disability, no services.

You aren't honestly saying that receiving special ed services is somehow a negative, or negatively impacts a child's progress later in school, are you? Because it's quite the opposite, and plenty of kids who receive those services are highly intelligent, participate and succeed later on in AP classes.[/quote]

These students do not always have learning disabilities or SN. They are referred for behaviors. This has been proven to be part of the school to prison pipeline for Black and Hispanic students. [/quote]

Oh give me a break. You think that getting referred to SN for behavior issues leads to prison?!?! You OBVIOUSLY have no idea how SN referrals and evaluations work. Evaluations are done by licensed clinical psychologists and there is absolutely no motivation to wrongfully identify a disability that isn't present. In fact, if anything, there is an incentive for the school to avoid identifying disabilities as they are then required to do so much more work and spend a ton of money providing resources to the student that then HELPS the student. Go read the SNs boards and you will see countless parents lamenting that their child's school did not agree to evaluate their child. You've got it wrong, on all counts.

The head of the Special Needs department for all of Loudoun County is a highly qualified African American woman, by the way. If there were systemic issues along the lines of what you are saying, I would think she'd be all over it.[/quote]

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