A former student, Aleysha Ortiz, is suing the city of Hartford and the local board of education. Ortiz alleges she graduated without learning how to read or write. She claims it was due to negligence and lack of proper support for her developmental disabilities.
The lawsuit claims Ortiz was denied necessary testing for dyslexia. It also claims she was removed from special education curriculum and only tested for developmental disabilities on her last day of school, revealing significant unmet educational needs.
People dismissing this really don’t understand how terrible the attitudes by administrators are towards special education and disability education. It’s entirety believable that the district would dismiss her needs in order to up their graduating numbers.
(Special education teachers are great, this is not aimed at them)
I’m also not familiar with “Straight Arrow News”, though, that’s the only thing that gives me pause
This should only be surprising to people who don’t know the stats. It’s almost 20% of graduates are functionally illiterate. There’s almost no schools where the bottom 5% of students are are close to competent in any subject.
im not surprised, they do this to NORMAL struggling students too,. witness my school passing people with ds or Fs, just to keep the funding going. what did you expect trying to force students to go to school at 7:30am(must wake an hr earlier to prepare) and this is a blue area too. if they do this to normal students, its not surprising SPED also suffers. also the fact they keep sped an extra 2+years in hs system, which probably costs them even more.
You can read this one from CNN. I posted the SAN article only because of the headline.
Thanks! I wasn’t trying to be negative, I just hadn’t heard of it before!