Playtime’s over, kindergartners - Standards stressing kids out

[liberal_at_heart]

50. and why are special education students even in these new very strict standards?

I am grateful for the improvements my son has made, but he is still two to three years behind his general education peers and he may always be two to three years behind his peers. Some special education students have low or borderline low IQs and may never be able to catch up to their peers. And yet these brilliant people who are coming up with these new standards think if we just push them hard enough they will some how magically jump light years ahead and catch up and so they put the same ridiculous standards on them that they put on the rest of the general education students. I feel horrible because I feel like my kid is being treated like a guinea pig. My son's teacher asked me at his last IEP meeting "Aren't you glad we didn't put him back into the LRC2 program?" (this is a special edcuation program that is designed for kids who need more support). I said well considering in sixth grade(this was the year we asked for him to be put back into the LRC2 program) he came home every day crying and asking if he could skip I don't think so. I' done. I will find a more suitable environment for him for next school year.