The answer should be obvious. Yet most Special Education students can't read. They aren't proficient 4th-grade readers. If they could do 4th-grade lessons, they wouldn't be in Special Education classes . Most of the IDEA students in the Severe Emotional Disturbances category receive Special Education instructions in expensive separate facilities - largely separate classrooms and separate schools.
Half leave school by dropping out.
Most in this group cannot read. They require supervision by parents, guardians, case workers, or prison and parole officers. Those who know that four out of five Special Education students have normal sight, hearing, and intelligence and that nearly four out of five have no physical, mental, or emotional problems when they enter school realize that this is a catastrophic record. All in Congress should fear a Two Million Man March on Washington by normal but illiterate young men who have spent many years in IDEA's bankrupting individual Special Education programs. Her work has appeared in National Review , and OCPA Perspective .