May 6, 2019, KSTP TV, St. Paul, MN: St. Paul school district 'investigating thoroughly' complaints over backdated student records https://kstp.com/news/st-paul-school-district-investigating-complaints-backdated-student-records/5341831/ Parents of a St. Paul school district student want to know why their child's student records were altered concerning special education services at Como Park Elementary School. KSTP agreed to protect the identity of the parents and the student after releasing the student's special education records for the 2018-2019 school year. Records provided by the family to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS show the student's Individual Education plan, or IEP, was not followed properly under federal law. States and school districts are reimbursed for IEP costs which include services such as occupational therapists, speech pathologists and paraprofessionals. … The documents of the Como Park Student, from the school and SPPS, show the student did not receive help from the school's speech pathologist for a total of 12 separate dates during November and December 2018. The parents of the child told KSTP they did not receive notice their child was not receiving services from the speech pathologist. The school has agreed to make up those missed dates. … However, school documents given to KSTP show the paraprofessional submitted multiple dates in September, October and November 2018 for the student. Those documents were not logged until March 21, 2019, all within minutes of one another on the same day. "I believe my child did not receive paraprofessional assistance on those dates," the student's parent said. "As far as I am concerned the reason, no doubt, that Como Park's administration had those services backdated was because our child did not receive the services in the months of October, November and December."…
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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