A former student, Aleysha Ortiz, is suing the city of Hartford and the local board of education. Ortiz alleges she graduated without learning how to read or write. She claims it was due to negligence and lack of proper support for her developmental disabilities.
The lawsuit claims Ortiz was denied necessary testing for dyslexia. It also claims she was removed from special education curriculum and only tested for developmental disabilities on her last day of school, revealing significant unmet educational needs.
I hope she wins.
I was pigeonholed holed into the remedial track and stonewalled whenever I tried to get out of it. They graduated me without the basic state requirements.
I recently called them just asking for a piece of paper saying that I did not fulfill the requirements and did not properly graduate. They refused me and insisted that I was fine. I did get them to admit that I tested Advance Proficient for science even though I was placed in remedial science.
I just want this piece of (legal)paper so I have one less brainworm while I fix my education for real.
You’re better off. Just getting a GED
I have one. It’s exactly the same as a HS diploma. Just a path to community college.
Honestly, I wish I’d just dropped at 16 and gotten my associates. I could’ve gotten into a city where there are jobs and education opportunities by the time I was 20 and have been positioned a lot better.
I wouldn’t actually recommend anyone reading this to drop out, but hindsight is 20/20 and I think it would’ve worked for me.
If it’s just about employability, sure. You can also just get your GED without dropping out of high school. You can probably just start CC as a summer student with the GED without dropping out of HS. There’s no national database of student transcripts and colleges don’t have the resources to call every HS to see if you may have been a student. A lot of this shit runs off of assumptions and the honor system.
My issue is that this has nothing to do with employability for me.
At one point, I was so desperate to get out of the remedial track, I told the guidance counselors I would drop out and enroll the next year if the classes were “filled up”. They thought I was bluffing and stuck me back in the shit classes. They gave me the shit classes, so I dropped out and before I went back, I got a GED and tried CC. It was terrible. The exact same “Cs get degrees” mentality that made remedial classes so depressing. I went back to HS and got one year of the more advanced classes and got exactly the same grades. Turns out that when you’re not getting bullied by kids with probationary officers, you can handle the more advanced material just fine.
POur cc had UC level courses so students are extra screwed for stem and paper writing at least 10% are guaranteed to not pass the class every semester doesn’t mention how many are getting D and Cs. Math not so much, but people are graduating hs being ill prepared for algebra even. In a blue area, people are graduating with barely a arithmetic skill level of math, let alone algebra is too advanced for these people . I know people had made fun of people with algebra in college, but it’s becoming a growing problem, also goes same for writing
And if you try to backup, the CCs block you. I got sick of dealing with my local CC, so I tried applying to one a bit further away. The made me take a placement test and refused to let me take a class because I apparently tested out of it. I do not respect placement tests.
I recently tried the local CC again after being assured that I could retake any class at the 4-year that I took at the CC. This time, they required that I declare a major as a freshmen. I did my own research and know which classes I would need for various majors. I was going to select ones that were requirements for a broad selection of majors so I wouldn’t feel like I was putting myself on a rail so early, but they weren’t going to let me do anything without declaring something. It’s such a stupid requirement when you can just switch later anyway, but it feels like it’s designed to cause a sunk-cost fallacy. There’s at least one much better school that refuses to let their incoming students declare a major until after their first semester because they want their students to try various things before deciding on a path.
They need to stop trying to be my life coach and just sell me the classes I want to buy.
they just wanted you “good grades” on paper, when in reality you were failing courses, they only need you for the funding.