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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is someone here really arguing that Nottingham kids should get access to special ed services more easily because their school has lower percentages of kids in need due to the wealth of their feeder population?  And that it's understandable that the APS schools that the poors go to may struggle with identifying learning disabilities but that Nottingham is rich enough to have the resources to identify these issues?

Some would say this is just saying the quiet part out loud.  But I disagree that this is the way our public schools should to work.  And I think kids at any school should have equal access to identification of learning disability issues.[/quote]

Literally no one is arguing that.[/quote]

Uh, pretty sure you must have missed this:

[quote]I'd buy that argument more at high needs schools like Carlin Springs, Barcroft, etc. But not at schools like Nottingham. Those schools do not have the high percentage of students with big special needs schools with high FRL and high% ELL have. They should absolutely be able to test more kids in the middle, especially when the parent is consistently expressing concerns. APS keeps telling us parents know their children best....until we ask APS for something. Then suddenly the teacher knows our kid better.[/quote]

This parent is saying that Nottingham kids with Bs and Cs should be able to get tested for disabilities by APS where kids at high needs schools can't afford to test the kids with only Bs and Cs.  Which is exactly what I was saying above, and is imho not how public schools should operate.  [/quote]

I am not that poster (I am the one arguing with that poster), but I think you are misreading their comment.  I don't think they were saying that, as a matter of principal, it should be easier for more affluent students to get special education testing.  I think they were arguing that in practice, the overall needs of the student body at a more affluent schools like Nottingham are not as great as at less affluent schools, that more affluent schools can devote more resources to testing and services for students who are at or above grade level as a result, and therefore any decision by an affluent school not to test a student for disabilities cannot be the result of inadequate resources and instead must be due to administration hostility toward students with special needs.

I disagree with some of their underlying assumptions on that, but I don't think they were saying that's how it should be. [/quote]

I'm not sure why you're not seeing that these two things are functionally equivalent.  Arguing that your kid should get more support because your school district is wealthy is the same thing as arguing that your kid should get more support because your school district is wealthy.[/quote]

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