Reply #1: This is one of the reasons I pulled my kid out of public school

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He is a gifted dyslexic. The county that I live in has no programs for gifted dyslexics. Rather it's a mish mash of services and the quality of these servives depends on where you are zoned.

My son could not pass the 3rd grade FCAT without assistance. However, they were not allowed to assist him because he hadn't finish the IEP process, which takes over a year, in order to be officially diagnosed a dyslexic. Needless to say he failed the FCAT.

Fortunately this rule was not in effect at the time because to have left this child back would have been devasting for him. He was already have a hard time with teachers who don't have a clue and to be told that he had to repeat 3rd grade would have caused a total meltdown.

This is the problem with using one flawed test to determine a whole generations fate. Individual circumstances must be taken into account before such life changing desisions are made.