Posted on 02/25/2025 11:01:29 AM PST by Puppage
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A Hartford Public Schools graduate is taking legal action against the city, the Board of Education, and one of her special education teachers. Aleysha Ortiz claims she asked for educational resources and support for years, but that help never came.
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Hartford is the nearest Democrat dumpster fire city to me (not very close fortunately).
The public schools have been toxic waste dumps for at least sixty years.
Parents who care about their kids have been fleeing that city for all of that time.
Suing Hartford for bad public schools is like neighbors who move into a rural area and then sue a pig farmer a quarter mile away because it smells on the street.
Who failed her? The teachers and the Department of Education.
Maybe the family couldn’t afford to live elsewhere.
If the facts stated in this article are true, I think she’s right to sue these so-called ‘educators’.
I was wondering about the family also.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. We had 4 kids and we tauht them all to read & do math. We never assumed the teachers were handling it. Start with the BOB books at 3-4 years depending on interest. Read to them every night from babyhood. Video & computer math games and times tables on car rides.
Parents are the first line of defense and teachers may or may not add value.
I think the parents were new to the area (from Puerto Rico) and did not realize how bad the Hartford schools are.
What some families do to avoid the Hartford public schools is very clever.
They will have some family member (often a grandma) live in a nearby town with good public schools. Then the kids claim grandma’s house as their “address”.
It is a pain for the parents to drop the kids off early morning and pick the kids up at grandma’s house in the late afternoon each school day but the Hartford schools are so awful it is worth it.
You caught me! I,too,am a graduate of the Boston school system.
What does that say about anyone who would hire a UConn grad?
IMO school is for socialization and the specials: science, history, geography, more advanced math. Your opinion may vary. I would never leave the basics to a teacher. To me that’s a parent’s job, as is as much general knowledge & enrichment as possible.
If you have the basics you can always pursue knowledge on your own.
Hartford school officials run a bribery and extortion racket.
They help Democrat officials get elected and they get paid in return.
Education has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Education is the cover story.
Hartford school officials run a bribery and extortion racket.
They help Democrat officials get elected and they get paid in return.
Education has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Education is the cover story.
Do a search on her name. There are lots of articles out there. She’s a typical, pretty young Puerto Rican girl.
This article includes some video remarks from her about halfway down. The speech impediment is obvious:
You are correct but I still have sympathy for the girl. My wife and I basically homeschooled our son as an adjunct of attending public school. We essentially had to teach all of his Math and Reading as the curriculum in those subjects were useless.
He's a physician now, so there's that....
EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER READ==
“SPECIAL NEEDS” KIDS GET 4 X the regular funding.
IF regular funding is $8,000 a year-—SPECIAL NEEDS KID GETS HANDLER, ETC & BUDGETED AT $32,000 a year.
Locally, SPECIAL NEEDS kids are also kept in high school to age 22-—an extra 4 years @ 4 X the budget.
It doesn’t seem that this kid got any real help despite ‘funding’
It appears her case worker not only failed to provide what she needed in terms of education, but harmed her with ridicule as well.
“Locally, SPECIAL NEEDS kids are also kept in high school to age 22”
That is true here as well.
Well look what we have here:
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