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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Start her on transition services, prepare for trade school.[/quote]

Could we please stop lowballing disabled kids?  There are plenty of dyslexic, dysgraphic, dyscalculic kids who are bright enough for college, and there are a zillion colleges, many of which you can go to without having earned a single A.

The repeated talk about trade school is really not appropriate, unless the kid is organically interested in something trade school teaches. [/quote]

What an ignorant thing to say. What’s wrong with trade school? [/quote]

Plus being on your feet more and not at a desk helps many types focus and stay engaged. Nursing, trades, teaching, walking about.[/quote]

There is nothing wrong with trade school. What I object to is that kids who are not successful academically in HS (as OP described) are immediately directed to trade school without any consideration as to how to adjust the HS accommodations and instruction to improve their ability to perform academically.

I also object to the idea that kids with not great grades shouldn’t go to college. A college degree is still a pre-requisite to many jobs in this country, and there are many, many colleges which accept kids with bad grades. I have a sibling who nearly failed English and got bad grades in anything to do with reading and writing. My parents sent him to college anyway, where he continued to have good grades and bad grades, but he graduated and today he has a technical engineering job in the computer industry and probably pulls 200-250K - he earns more than any of us siblings. He never would have gotten his career start without a college degree.

I also said in my post “….unless the kid is organically interested in trade school”. By all means, kids who are interested in plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc. or other kinds of certificate or blue or pink collar jobs like police, fire, EMS and nursing, and computers, should go into those jobs if they are interested in them (and I have a kid in one of those careers who got there through a college route although college is unnecessary for it.)

But, immediately telling parents of academically struggling kids that their only options is trade school unnecessarily limits kids. [/quote]

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