This should only be surprising to people who don't know the stats. It's almost 20% of graduates are functionally illiterate. There's almost no schools where the bottom 5% of students are are close to competent in any subject.

im not surprised, they do this to NORMAL struggling students too,. witness my school passing people with ds or Fs, just to keep the funding going. what did you expect trying to force students to go to school at 7:30am(must wake an hr earlier to prepare) and this is a blue area too. if they do this to normal students, its not surprising SPED also suffers. also the fact they keep sped an extra 2+years in hs system, which probably costs them even more.

You can read this one from CNN. I posted the SAN article only because of the headline.

Dude you know Hartford, CT is about as DNC as it gets right?

"Republican play book" dude it's Connecticut. And none the less Hartford. That city hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1971.

The issue is that educational funding is predominantly on the municipal level, rather than the state level.

The only mention in the article about Republicans is the CT Republicans being outraged about how the schools have failed this child. Which is entirely justifiable.

But rather than look at the underlying system issues lets resort to flinging mud at people who had zero impact in the current situation.

I don't doubt she will. CT's Constitution's Article 18 provides for a free public education. She seems to have been denied that here.

You're better off. Just getting a GED

She was the one who chose the stock photo

yes, because she was unable to read and write in German

While there are many problems with standardized testing, I think this is where people say we need standardized testing.

If a school is pulling that shit, there needs to be a way to catch it and do something about it

Except she's a woman, so very likely to be sexually assaulted in the military (and that's if she even gets in, DEI and all that), and vets get shafted as well. Her losing a leg to an IED will be ruled "not service related," and she will be denied any funds related to care or issues resulting from said injury after she leaves the military.

As a teacher, admin will not listen.

“Hey this kid cannot read. Hey this kid smells like shit and has been wearing the same outfit for the past two weeks. Hey this kid is telling her classmates which gas stations will sell vape carts to minors.”

Me: "My kid has a learning disability. Can you give her some reasonable accommodations?"

My Kids School: "But does she really though?"

Me: "Uh, yeah. She has a diagnosis. From a psychiatrist. Also, you have noticed her grades are abysmal, right?"

School: "They're not that bad. She's actually doing pretty well."

Me: "She has mostly D's and F's. Is that seriously what you consider 'pretty well'?"

School: "..."

I'm doing some major paraphrasing but this is the gist of actual conversations with my daughters school administration. I'm not saying I believe it's very likely that someone could graduate without being able to read and write. I'm just saying that in some school districts, there's a greater than zero percent chance of that happening.

I graduated many years ago now, but I did graduate with someone who could not read or write. He was a sport prodigy, so they lied to keep him playing. It definitely happens.

(without looking into it to verify) isn't this likely because of "no child left behind"?

CT has standardized tests that are required to be taken to progress through school

I don't know about CT, but I deliberately failed one of my state required tests in NJ and they passed me anyway. It's all theater.

I absolutely buy it. I know someone whose job it is to teach kids in grade 6-8 how to read. Some can't read three letter words. This is in a blue state. This teacher I know frequently talks about most of her colleagues being grossly negligent in a variety of ways.

Why would you want to support some one who is considered retarded? When my Grandpa went to college his parents were upset because he was the dumb one.

As it turns out he was way more successful than any of his siblings. He just was dyslexic and probably Autistic.