My Son Is In Special Education And I Want Him To Be Challenged
Seeing his potential, one mother wonders why her child isn't held to higher standards at school, despite his learning disability.
By the time my younger son is midway through third grade, I realize that his academic progress has stalled. He's stuck somewhere between kindergarten and first grade.
School is a struggle for him. He has a language-based learning disability, which affects how long it takes for him to process new information before he can respond.
We have safeguards — classroom accommodations and an Individualized Education Plan, or IEP, a document required by law for students who receive special education — to keep him on track.
Except, that he isn't.
Desperate to wake him, we begin working through stacks of math and reading materials I amass at home, ones that I found researching
