Lower the Virginia "Standards of Learning (SOL) score" for the Students with Disabilities at least 100 points.
Why is this important?
Students with Disabilities are required to participate in the general education classes. These students are functioning 2 and 3 grade levels below their non-disabled peers. These students are being taught the general education grade level curriculum with accomodations and modifications to be sucessful in the general education class rooms. They are continously failing the Standards of Learning Test because they are not on their grade level. if they are held to the same standards as the regualr education students, what is the reason for the special education services. I think they should be held accountable for learning the curriculum, but they do have a documented disability which hinders them from performing to the same standards as their non-disabled peers. This is frustrating to the studnets as well as the teachers, who have to witness these students trying to score the same score at a level in which they do not function. According to the NCLB Act, these students are not suppose to be left behind, but indeed they are being left behind and they are not motivated to learn under these conditions. Please lower the SOL score for the students with disabilites, they are not on grade level to take the grade level SOL test.
