I just ran across this at Twitter. A rant from a father of a special education student.

[madfloridian]

Here is a link to his website, with a very angry post front and center now. I do not blame him. Take time to read it. This is the way Arne Duncan and reformers plan to treat special education kids now.

Exceptional Delaware

This was my son’s math homework tonight. My son with special needs. This was his first day of division. Can someone, in the name of all that is holy, tell me exactly what the hell this is? I know what it’s supposed to be. But it is not. It is a confusing, prime example of the agony that is Common Core. Students should not be subjected to this. My son is in tears right now, missing his 4th grade teacher and he hates 5th grade. This isn’t what school should be about. It shouldn’t be this hard. It should be about learning at an appropriate grade level.

....And you want to test my special needs student on this material? OVER MY DEAD BODY!!!! I will not subject him to this hell. Parents, we need to wake up and open our eyes to this reality. This isn’t making our children ready for college. It’s a curriculum that our own Secretary of Education Mark Murphy already expects 70% of our students to fail on the state test next Spring. What will that do to students confidence? They will be made to feel like failures. With that comes rejection and isolation in their perceived view of the world. This is a sin beyond proportion.

Parents, I have only one more thing to say: Opt-out of this and demand your legislators immediately ban this torture being inflicted on our children. The ONLY reason schools aren’t against this is because they feel they have no choice. But parents do, and it is our time to rise up and take back our children’s education.

The reason schools and districts are fighting is because they need Arne's money. The IEPs are going to be ignored soon.

There are test samples at the site.

Here is his Twitter page.

I feel the frustration.