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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

The Hechinger Report

When they separate you into different classrooms it can just debilitate you,” he said, adding that the content was “dummied down.” Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom. When he got to high school, it was more like treading water.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.