As a special education major, this kind of thing boils my blood. An impairment to that severity is typically beyond the assistance a mainstream teacher is willing or able to handle. I had a hard enough time as a student getting my teachers to print full-sized text instead of saving paper by printing two shrunken sheets on one side. Or to not give me blurry hand-outs that were poorly photocopied from a workbook.

At this point, even if she doesn't have a learning disability that affects her cognition, she still needs a resource teacher to help her catch up to grade level and a serious IEP and 504 plan. How the district got away with neglecting either of those for so long, I will never understand. If I didn't live several hundred miles away, I would personally jerk a knot in every single administrator this family encountered.

Everything is bigger in Tesxas ... Everything except brains, that is.