>>> Do these school administrators even have a brain in their head? Do they even realize they have special education students in their school? I am currently looking into private schools. I can't afford for him to go full time but I will sell my soul to the devil to get him in for at least math and science because those are the two classes he is failing.>>>
1. Most school admins ( I said "MOST"
are failed teachers and are attracted to administration by the prospect of money, status, and power over other people.(And getting out of the classroom, which they HATE.) They tend NOT to the best and the brightest.... and certainly not the most ethical.
2. But they MAY know and not care. There's also a collection of relatively new and egregiously dumb ideas now making the rounds re. how to address sp ed. The most idiotic is fueled by the common core fad and says all kids... even sp ed kids, even profoundly retarded sp ed kids, have to be taught the same curricular elements as gen ed kids of the same age/grade level. So a 15 yo w. Down Syndrome and a measured IQ in the 40s has to be taught Algebra. Even if he can't tell time, count money or even identify the numerals 1-10.
Algebra. For kids who can't count to ten.
Only school administrators... the most determined of whom move up to the district office and thereby can set policy .... could be clueless enough to think this is an appropriate education.
If I were you I'd visit an ed lawyer and see what the prospects were for getting the district to pay for a private school which can provide an *appropriate* education... since apparently the district cannot provide one. There are attys who specialize in precisely this area.
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