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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is dyslexic. I have to pay for very expensive afterschool tutoring that my ADHD kid has to sit through after 7 hours in school.

Is she getting FAPE?  According to FCPS she is.

But AAP kids who would do just fine in a regular class with pull outs is apparently a huge injustice?

Please. These parents of high academic achievers are the most asinine, arrogant people in the world. [/quote]

Judging from the amount of time I spent with the Asst. Principal, Guidance Counselor and school psychologist when DC was K-2, you really don't want my bored, highly gifted, ADHD kid in your child's classroom. While he was waiting for your kid to catch up to him in 2nd grade, he was reading Tom Sawyer and Swiss Family Robinson for fun instead of listening to the teacher,  and constantly interrupting, and acting out.  In the 6 years he's been in the AAP Center, we've had no behavioral complaints.  Fortunately, he heads to HS next year, so he has no stake in the continuation of AAP. But if you had moved him back to a GE classroom 3 years ago, you would be the parent on DCUM griping that my DC was taking all of the teacher's time & attention, and making it hard for your DC to learn. No matter how good a teacher is, they can't differentiate instruction for 30 Kids with an IQ range of 70 (b/c Sped kids are pushed in) to 150.  People like you will find a reason to gripe no matter what the situation is. [/quote]

If your kid is so disruptive and so bored then you should homeschool him or pay for private.

My kid is not learning either way because FCPS will not provide dyslexia specific remediation, hence the reason we are paying for it after school.

And kids with dyslexia are not low IQ, you ass.  [/quote]

I am an adult with dyslexia.  I was in the slower classes in ES because I was a slow reader and not real good at math (kept transposing numbers).  In middle school, as we got into more advanced topics, a teacher noticed that I was getting things (in math) that other kids were not.  Once we got into graphs and closer to algebra, things worked differently for me.  I was evaluated at that time.  They did not identify dyslexia, but discovered I had a genius level IQ (150+).  By then, I had developed approaches for compensating for my dyslexia -- I read somewhat differently than most people; I remain a terrible speller (I can not spot the misspelling).

The funny thing is it helps me in my world. I see symmetry that many people struggle to identify.  From the symmetry of the problem space, I am able to simplify physics problems by reducing them to the minimum dimensions with a transform.  I can solve real world problems 10-20x faster than many colleagues. 
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And I'm an adult who would have been labeled 2e (IQ 150 + ADHD) if that had bee[/quote]

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