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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools aren't magic. They can't teach a cognitively disabled highly student something she can't learn, with a parent who can't engage and communicate.

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Agree. I have a lot of questions about this situation, the first one being whether the parent requested any kind of evaluation for her child. I'm also wondering if the parent ever tried to read with the kid, either in English or in Spanish.[/quote] How would the uneducated parent know that they need to request an evaluation or that an evaluation is a thing that exists? Or that, while the schools in her much poorer country taught kids to read, American schools somehow wouldn't [/quote]

Well, in most cases a concerned parent would talk to a teacher. I think that is kind of obvious. The teacher isn't hard to locate.
Then above the teacher is a whole slew of admins at any school. They are kind of hard to miss. They usually have a big office with lots of devices, desks, shelves and some PA devices. They hang around that office a lot so there's always someone there. Talk to some of them and at some point a parent would be directed to the county/city department for such things.
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Why would the parent be concerned if the school tells them everything is fine?[/quote]
+1 I'm a school psychologist who just tested a 9th grader for a special education re-evaluation. Student has a 3.7 GPA. Per testing, she is reading at about a 2nd grade level. Parents had NO CLUE their child was so far behind. They saw the good grades...no behavior problems...and assumed all was well.

(This is a crap urban high school where reading scores are really low and behaviors are really bad, so a well-behaved student who turns in work--even if it's crap-- will be passed through with great marks.) [/quote]

I’m conservative and I think this is such a travesty of justice. Appalling. Where are all the liberal rioters when there’s actually a reason to complain?[/quote]

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