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Austerity has my roommate had her class of 12 kids moved into a windowless side room. (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by HelloHotel to c/asklemmy

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Hello! so my roommate is a SPED teacher. The school changed how SPED works to be identical to standard education at the expense of the 6th 7th and 8th graders that have mental disabilities. because of office politics and "Test Scores", all SPED teachers got assigned a subject based on "who would make the best test scores" and she (suspiciously) got the short end of the stick. she also got assigned a repurposed office room no larger than small bedroom with no windows.

what can she do to possibly deal with or go around the internal politics? if not, how could she change the room itself to make it at least tolerable?

Edit: for all that need to know for the legal side of thimgs, we are currently in Ohio.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Write the local paper?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Oh I definitely smell a soft news cycle story on this. Can't you just see the reporter in the classroom, no windows, full of kids.

They told (him|her) it was to improve test scores. How you ask? By moving these students to a repurposed office. One that does not even have... a window.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Haha, as if any paper had the ability to do anything but publish press releases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sometimes you can get positive change at local papers. Lots of the people working there got into it because they wanted to do journalism, and unlike national papers, many people who aren't ideologically aligned with the billionaires don't get filtered. Even if nobody at the paper follows up on it, I've seen getting a letter published in the public comment section of the paper get the ball moving.

Schools tend to take retributive action against both teachers and students, but that's usually part of the sequence for building enough trouble that the school board/superintendent starts to lean on the principle.