Paraprofessional Jessica Wein helps Josh Nazzaro stay focussed while attending class virtually from his home in Wharton, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Without any in-school special education services for months, Nazzaro’s normally sweet demeanor has sometimes given way to aggressive meltdowns that had been under control before the pandemic.
The same frustrations are shared by many of the nation’s 7 million students with disabilities — a group representing 14% of American schoolchildren. Advocates for these students say the extended months of learning from home and erratic attempts to reopen schools are deepening a crisis that began with the switch to distance learning in March.
“Regression is something that will be very, very hard to recuperate from,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education. To his family’s relief, sixth-grader Griffin Stinner returned to school four days a week in mid-October when special education students were among the first to return to the Kenmore Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District in western New York state. But it did not last. Shortly before Thanksgiving, the district announced it would revert to fully remote learning because of the region’s rising virus caseload.
To make up every hour lost — on top of providing services going forward — would be impossible. Educators will need to make individual decisions based on where a student is today, compared with their status before services stopped or changed, she said. A judge in New York City dismissed the suit, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction, but not before more than 500 families in 35 states had moved to sign on.
No shit or is this the plan
My heart breaks for these children/families. There is no easy solution.
Also this article is incorrect - only elementary students with IEPs who opted into blended model & District 75 program of NYCSchools will return for in-person, and even then, not full time. That leaves about 120,000 middle & high schoolers with IEPs in the lurch.
and Pompeo is ready to party
this is the tragedy - hard to categorize the greatest failure in this pandemic but this is in the top five - vulnerable victims
Yeah... so let’s send them back to school already!!
adamhousley cc Tim_Walz GovTimWalz OPEN UP THE SCHOOLS. YOU ARE HURTING OUR KIDS!!! YES, YOU!!!!
adamhousley And this happens to them too! Terrible!!
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PLANNED-DEMIC!!!!
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My heart goes out to all Americans, no leadership is driving C19 cases and deaths. My state in Australia has just come out of the 2 nd wave, lockdown for 7 months with enormous ongoing consequences and financial damage. The people uniting was the driver to succeed, all together.
You’re 8 months late with this report? You clowns of knew this back then but you intentionally stifled the release of this critical information. You share the blame in this tragedy.
Don’t act like you care AP. You’ve been pushing the Democrat and Fauci crazy science on online education for months. Put a sock in it.
The demographic least likely to have Covid complications - 18 and under - are some of the hardest hit by insane shutdowns. Imagine the mindset of politicians willing to rob children of educational opportunities because of a virus that largely doesn’t hurt young people.
adamhousley Yes, it’s child abuse brought on by the government.
People are dying by the .00001s the insanity has to stop
Correction 'unnecessary extended months'
adamhousley Well no shit.
Yes. Pandemics are bad for education.
While I agree there is no solution to this problem just can’t open it up and hope no one gets sick
My daughter regressed horribly right before the closures in March and is STILL IN HER REGRESSION NOW BECAUSE OF ALL THIS CRAP. OPEN THE DAMN SCHOOLS AND STOP DUMBING DOWN AMERICA. If you don’t have a child with special needs you have zero idea of what you are talking about
This is not helpful. I am a teacher. We are all struggling. But what would you have us do? With 275,000 dead, there is no safe way to have students and teachers in school full time. This is a nearly unprecedented event, and we are in survival mode.
WGabel21 My students get their services because Paraprofessionals Teachers and Parents advocate for them. But they should't have to.
You think? Only the elitist left thought they could still provide equal education virtually. A generation of children have been hurt forever because of your arrogance.
Better to be behind in learning than dead.
adamhousley Uh no shit. It’s causing more damage than it’s helping to have the schools closed
Congress failed the USA by not enacting laws that applied uniformly to all the states to stop CV19. Congress and Trump fighting and dying for votes just sat on their hands when this could have been accomplished in February. Death on their hands FoxNews realDonaldTrump
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No, it’s worse. It’s called regression and it started when schools closed in March. No speech, ABA therapy, occupational therapy, etc. Every one of us special needs parents knew what was going to happen, and we are tired.
What a mess this pandemic is wreaking. We should study how the world survived the even worse Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 with 30 million dead worldwide.
The pandemic is a scam. Yes it’s a real virus, but you BEASTS have caused extremely undue fear. Most people have a 99.97% chance of getting through it, just like the flu. You will NOT be getting away with this one, you inhuman bastards.