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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well-heeled rhe elephant innthe room.
MCPS does NOT care about special need kids.
A [b]child with an iq of 79 should NEVER be at school with the general population[/b].  But McKnight, et al, would rather spend 1.5 million so you know if Larlos bus is 2 minutes late than to address the needs of special needs students.  I would love to see how many seriously bullied kids are SN kids. 
The child who was murdered innthe woods in Germantown seemed to have special needs, too, according to his mother.

Where is the investigative reporting on this? How many special needs children are being violently bullied and intimidated at school? Why won't MCPS do better? Special needs students should be protected.[/quote]

The average IQ of black people in the United States is ~85; setting a threshold of 79 would mean that about 40% of African American kids in the US would be classified as special needs.

From Wikipedia: “ In the US, individuals identifying themselves as Asian generally tend to score higher on IQ tests than Caucasians, who tend to score higher than Hispanics, who tend to score higher than African Americans. Nevertheless, greater variation in IQ scores exists within each ethnic group than between them.[55] A 2001 meta-analysis of the results of 6,246,729 participants tested for cognitive ability or aptitude found a difference in average scores between black people and white people of 1.1 standard deviations. Consistent results were found for college and university application tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (N = 2.4 million) and Graduate Record Examination (N = 2.3 million), as well as for tests of job applicants in corporate settings (N = 0.5 million) and in the military (N = 0.4 million).[56]”

1.1 standard deviations is about 16 IQ points.  If you set Caucasians in the US at 100, then the mean for African Americans would be approximately 84.  So, a score of 79 would be only slightly below average.[/quote]
There is a difference between SN and requiring remedial education. This kid may or may not have been SN, but he was certainly in need of remedial education and based on testimony from his own teacher, his academic goal was only to pass the class which required his full commitment. At that academic level he should have been in a different learning environment that could meet him where he is and better cater to his academic needs.[/quote]

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