Posted on 12/07/2024 2:38:38 PM PST by grundle
San Jose special ed student ‘earns’ diploma despite reading issues, then denied services
If after 12 years of schooling he’s functioning at the 2nd grade level, how likely is it that more services would make a difference?
By providing training in something, he could achieve a level of independence that would make him less dependent on social service, even if not completely.
As I understand it, having taught in public schools for my career (but not special ed), a public school is obliged to provide services for I.E.P. students until their 22nd birthday. Perhaps by awarding him a H.S. diploma, the district is relieved of this obligation. Anyone in the field know if this is so?
I don’t understand. If he is at second grade level, then he’s probably among the elite graduates in California! He could probably qualify for a job at one of California’s premier universities.
As soon as I saw San Jose I figured whatever it was would be FUBAR.
He could run for Congress.
Probably not really at the 2nd-grade level after 12 years. He probably needs intensive support from his family or institutionalization on some level.
“By providing training in something, he could achieve a level of independence that would make him less dependent on social service, even if not completely.”
Actually, there’s a problem with the minimum legal wage. If he can’t work at that level than no one can hire him. Goodwill used to employ a lot of people but when they were covered by the minimum wage law, they had to let them all go. Because everyone deserves a minimum wage. This is when trying to do the “right” thing hurts the people the government is trying to help. Happens all the time because, everyone is the same, don’t-you-know.
Here in Texas, they continue to provide services even after graduation. Services include housing, food, special assistance, transportation, and tuition assistance.
My son is a high functioning Aspergers. We denied all these services. Our son will be heading off to college next year. He took this year to help me get around due to my seizures. He drives me everywhere I need to go. My husband and I provide for him and he asks for very little.
Not the future I imagined for either of us, but we work with what God gives us.
Not all families are this lucky so the young people need help getting established in a world they have difficulty navigating.
There are jobs he can do, like landscaping or working in a bottle depot. His future isn’t great, but being trained for something would have given him some kind of future.
Yes.
Logical and likely correct.
He definitely qualifies as a Democrat nominee for U.S. Senator for CA.
In fact I hear the Democrat 2028 Presidential nomination is available.
If anyone objects you are a vicious hater and should be banned and canceled immediately.
:-)
I think it’s insane mission creep to expect public schools who can’t seem to do what they are supposed to do to take responsibility for job training profoundly limited adults.
….and be overqualified.
You look at the exams to pass high school at the start of the 20th century. They are rather difficult. Businesses were saying we need more high school graduates, so the government just dumbed down the requirements. Been going downhill a long time.
Missing info. What is the race of this yute?
The services he needs are supportive in nature,ie, one on one care person, supervision for a limited job, etc. Clearly this person is mentally disabled and needs help for the rest of his life. If receiving the diploma takes away the services he needs to live then their is a serious issue with the state.
First, there seems to be a larger issue with students with an IEP getting grades for classes on their transcript that don’t reflect their doing the regular work in those classes. I imagine that is legally required for IEPs, which is grossly dishonest.
Second, if after all that schooling the dude is so limited that he’s operating at the 2nd to 4th grade level, I don’t see how any more years of such education is going to make him employable as a mechanic. That is insulting to mechanics.
Third, I bet schools are required to give diplomas to such students who via IEPs don’t actually complete their class work at a regular level at all, which is also grossly dishonest.
Fourth, he’s longing to be on a school bus for years into adulthood? That’s just wrong for the actual school-aged students riding the bus.
Fifth, he wishes that his teachers would be deported? Is he himself here legally—or at risk of being deported?
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