To take a slightly serious tone for a moment, if your school says your kid might have special needs, please listen to them. It might not be a pleasant diagnosis/moment, but if you get your kid the help they need early, it does so much to help them in the long run. I used to have speech problems in 1st grade, but I was funneled into a speech therapy program and out of it in just over a year (now when I fuck up while talking, I have to blame alcohol and… Other things).
All of that is to say that you should NEVER do what this mother did to her own son when the school told her that he needed extra help. And especially to a teacher with as much as experience as this.
Obligatory posting this on behalf of someone else.
The Characters:
• Teacher – 1st grade elementary teacher at a private school with 20+ years experience, compliance expert.
• SN Student – Nice but slow student. Your typical “needs extra help” special needs first grader.
• Mrs. PhD – Mother of SN Student. Has a doctorate in education but never actually taught anywhere. Married to a husband who also has a PhD, and as a result, should be incapable of creating an offspring with an IQ below 150.
The Story:
SN Student was promoted to first grade largely on the grounds that a student cannot be held back in kindergarten without the parents’ consent, and the Teacher was warned that SN Student would need some extra help from her and the aid. After the first 4-6 weeks of school, SN Student was numerous signs of a learning disability when it came to reading and math, and even with extra in-class help, their grades were very poor.
The teacher passed this along to Mrs. PhD, requesting a meeting to discuss her son’s performance, requesting that she allow SN Student to be placed in special education classes, and requesting that she permit the state to test her child for learning disabilities (which up until 2nd grade, also requires the consent of the parents).
As is all too often the case, Mrs. PhD demanded the principal be in attendance at the meeting, and spent the first half of the meeting berating both the Teacher and the principal as “My child has no issue. He’s the genius offspring of two geniuses and is the opposite of someone who needs special ed. If you didn’t suck at your jobs, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.” The second half of the meeting consisted of Mrs. PhD attack the Teacher over her choice to design and use her own tests, and instead demanded that the Teacher use the standard tests provided with the textbooks, as [insert statistical PhD BS] was causing her son to perform worse on the custom tests.
The Teacher tried arguing back stating that the tests were virtually identical, other students were not having an issue with the tests, and that custom tests needed to be used after numerous parents were caught handing their younger children copies of the standard tests that their older siblings took (yes, this even occurred in 1st grade). Also as is all too often the case, the principal simply caved and instructed the Teacher to use the standard tests going forward.
For the first month after then standard tests were used, SN Student’s grades soared. SN Student had an A average across the board during the period, with perfect 100’s on all reading tests, and Mrs. PhD sent quite a few smug notes to the Teacher pointing this out. The Teacher spoke to SN Student, said she was impressed with his performance, and asked if he was doing anything different at home to study. As 1st graders do, SN Student proudly responded that the tests were easier once he could start practicing them in advance. As it turns out, Mrs. PhD wanted the standard tests to be used as she could obtain the teacher’s edition copy of the textbooks, and could have her son memorize answers in advance.
The Compliance:
The Teacher was irate, half pissed at Mrs. PhD’s notes, half pissed at how Mrs. PhD was ruining her sons life by rushing him up the grades (and the principal was not pleased either). While the Teacher couldn’t go back to using her own questions, she was permitted to make minor changes to the standard tests. Math tests asked identical questions, but the question ordering was changed. Reading tests had adjustments where answers were changed without impacting the question; such as:
Initial Version:
The dog saw the sheep swimming in the pool. The dog also saw the bear playing soccer. The dog then saw the cat climbing a tree.
Q: Which animal was playing soccer?
New Version:
The dog saw the sheep swimming in the pool. The dog also saw the cat playing soccer. The dog then saw the bear climbing a tree.
Over the next two weeks, SN Student failed everything, including scoring 0’s on both reading quizzes. The Teacher sent the results along to Mrs. PhD, along with a follow up request for state testing. Never got a response.
TLDR: Parent demands a teacher use the standard tests provided along with the school’s textbooks so her son can memorize the answers ahead of time. Teacher complies, but due to slight modifications, the student fails.
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h/t Reddit
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