Apr 19, 2023Liked by Victoria McDougald, Brandon Wright
MA does not have laws either for giftedness and the burden to enforce accountability for learning differences is on the caregivers, as well. Hoping the latter is better in CA. “Nor should the burden of advocacy fall on individual parents, many of whom aren’t education experts and who, like me, are already exhausted and overwhelmed by the many challenges of ...” = the reason for Dyslexia Now What.
I'm in CA. I don't think we have a policy on gifted education. When my kids were in school, it was occasionally offered by a volunteer parent and consisted of robotics at lunch time. However, my son loved it! Unfortunately, they told me they were not equipped to handle his autism, and put him in a special education class the following year. I see this all the time in my school district. Once a child is diagnosed, they put them in a special program, despite their abilities, or in my son's case, an actual placement in the gifted program. I fought hard for my son, but once he was in Special Ed, his behavior worsened. He endured remedial classes until he finally dropped out and took the GED test for high school equivalency.
MA does not have laws either for giftedness and the burden to enforce accountability for learning differences is on the caregivers, as well. Hoping the latter is better in CA. “Nor should the burden of advocacy fall on individual parents, many of whom aren’t education experts and who, like me, are already exhausted and overwhelmed by the many challenges of ...” = the reason for Dyslexia Now What.
I'm in CA. I don't think we have a policy on gifted education. When my kids were in school, it was occasionally offered by a volunteer parent and consisted of robotics at lunch time. However, my son loved it! Unfortunately, they told me they were not equipped to handle his autism, and put him in a special education class the following year. I see this all the time in my school district. Once a child is diagnosed, they put them in a special program, despite their abilities, or in my son's case, an actual placement in the gifted program. I fought hard for my son, but once he was in Special Ed, his behavior worsened. He endured remedial classes until he finally dropped out and took the GED test for high school equivalency.