my daughter will be a sophmore in high school. She receives rsp for english and math. The school district has informed us that our state(Calif) is requiring the students take Algebra in order to graduate with a diploma. The SD wans to remove all kids in RSP math and put them in the general ed CPM course(college prep math). This is the program that our SD uses. The classroom supposedly will have a full time RSP teacher in the classroom to help the RSP students. The class will have approx. 30 students in it. The SD has explained that they do not have an RSP class that will provide the Algebra course the students need, so they are putting them in the general ed math. My problem with this is that the CPM course is a very difficult course and is noting like basic Algebra. I have searched to find out if the SD can do this. Does anyone know? My daughter is not even at grade level in math and struggled last year in RSP math as they did work on Algebra in there. The number of students in the classroom is also a concern for me. My daughter also has CAPD and speech and language problem. If the SD is allowed to do this, want are my guarantees that the general ed teacher will have the skills to teacher the RSP students as they all learn differently. Thank you for any reponse.
HS math
How’s she doing?
My daughter is going through the same thing. I am having trouble fining out what they think they are doing to follow her IEP goals. - They are in decimals, and fractions. If you can’t do those operations, it’s because of problems with multipliction - then you of course can’t do algebra, fail and waste time.
I bought something to use at home called mathusee.com in algebra with manipulatives. My daughter is stubborn to work with me though.
Re: special ed and high school math
That’s NUTS.
I’m confused — is the SD putting her in CPM or regular math?
I would document the probably painfully obvious need for something besides CPM and then suggest that since they cannot, as you said, provide the class she needs, that either they pay for the private school that owuld provide it or let her take Math as an independent study. I mean, she isn’t going to learn SQUAT about math except reinforce taht she cannot do it. So she might as well not learn math in the most pleasant way possible. If there’s a teacher or librarian she gets along with she can go to that teacher’s room (or the library) for that period and oh, do some math review for a while and then help the teacher in sometihgn. (Or she could have the ‘independnet study’ in whatever class in the whole blooming school would best fit, whatever the grade or level).
I teach students with learning differences math at a high school in a different state, so I am not familar with Calf education laws. But the new no child left behind act (federal law) expects students to be tested at grade level in math and reading. This may be why your district is taking this approach.