Opinion ID: 1110827
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: School Performance and Academic Skills.

Text: ¶ 66. The majority recognizes that the record shows that Hughes consistently received failing grades in high school before he dropped out. To amplify Hughes's poor school record a bit, I think it only fair to point out that when Hughes was thirteen years old when in the fifth grade with students who were ten years old, and he was seventeen when he was in the eighth grade with students who were thirteen years old. ¶ 67. Also, I think it only fair to supplement the majority's statement, The record does not indicate that he was in special education classes. That he was not actually in special education classes means little, considering that the record reflects he would have qualified for special education classes, but his father refused to allow it. ¶ 68. We are provided with Hughes's scores from the Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test. He achieved a standard score 58 (comparable to an IQ score) and a percentile rank of less than 1 (in other words, more than 99 percent of the people taking this test within his age range scored better than him). He also scored a 58 functional reading skills standard (less than one percentile). His reading recognition score on the WRAT-3 (Wide Range Achievement Test  revision three), was 49 with a corresponding grade score of 2.1, and a spelling standard score of 51 with a corresponding grade score of 2.1 These scores are expected of second-graders.