Illiterate graduates in high schools sue the district in the middle of a ‘deeper problem’: expert
Two high school students who say they can’t read or write are defeated their public school systems, claiming they did not receive free public education they are entitled to.
Professor of the Faculty of Law Cornell William A. Jacobson, director of the security Clinic for security of securities, told Fox News Digital, the lawsuits indicated a “much deeper problem” with the US public school system.
“I think these cases reflect a deeper problem in education. For each of these cases, there are probably tens of thousands of students who have never received appropriate education – they have been pushed along the system,” Jacobson said. “Unfortunately … We created incentives, especially for public school systems, so that we only pushed students and not consider them responsible.”
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Tennessee lawsuit
The appellant judge recently performed with Tennessee with student William A., judging that students were denied free public education to which he is entitled to the Law on Education of Individuals with Disabilities (Idea).
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Student Clarksville, Tennessee, is claimed in a lawsuit that he has been denied free public education because they never taught him how to read or write with dyslexia. (East)
“William graduated from high school without being able to read or even write his own name,” Judge Circuit Raymond Kethledge wrote in his judgment. “This was because, according to the conditions of his IEP, he relied on a number of accommodation that masked his inability to read.”
To write the work, William would speak the topic in the software in the text and paste words in the AI app like Chat-GPT, which would then “generate work on the subject,” Kothledge explained. William would glue that text into his own document and “started that paper through another software program like Grammarly, so he reflected the appropriate writing style.”
William A. used artificial intelligence applications (AI) such as Chat-GPT to complete his classmate. (East)
William, who has heavy dyslexia, has undergone 12 years of public education with an independent educational plan (IEP), never learned to read or write, and still graduated with 3.4 GPA, according to court documents.
“This child cannot read.”
When William was in 9th grade in 2020, a special education teacher asked for a school psychologist “[p]Watch William rent [A]. I’m very worried. “
The teacher stated, “This child cannot read,” according to a suit.
Air view downtown Clarksville, Tenn. (East)
The Clarksville-Montgomery (CMCSS) school school system in Tennessee, “knowing he could not read it, went right, creating an artificial GPA from 3.41 to the end of the eleventh grade, putting William on the journey to a full-time degree in education, although it lacked the basic reading skills,” reads the original complaint.
CMCSS told Fox News Digital that he did not comment on the litigation.
“Until March 2023. William could not consistently write his own name while signing his IEP. And in June 2023. William’s own writing pattern illustrated that he could not write more than 31 words in three minutes. He wrote half a word, all of the words at the kindergarten he remembered.”
A lawsuit in Connecticut
In a similar lawsuit outside Connecticut, a high school graduate named Aleysha Ortiz claims similarly that she went through years of public education in Hartford District with learning disability and IEP, and that she has ever learned to read or write.
“I think these cases reflect a deeper problem in education,” said Professor of the Faculty of Law Cornell William Jacobson. (East)
Ortiz not only graduated with honors, but also admitted to the University of Connecticut, according to the appeal.
Ortiz claims in her complaint that, although her reading and writing skills did not speak properly, she presented “younger than her year socially and emotionally” and was subjected to mistreatment.
Aleysha Ortiz filed a lawsuit against the Hartford County Education Committee in December 2024. (East)
Like William, Ortiz began to use “auxiliary technology to help her read and write, and tirelessly advocated for himself at school,” the appeal said.
“She told them she was worried she wasn’t ready for college …”
“In May 2024. The prosecutor reported her case manager and PPT that after graduation she was accepted and planned to attend the University of Connecticut,” the appeal said. “She told them that she was worried that she was not ready for college and that she would not be able to get the accommodation she would need in college to be successful for the rejection of the committee to allow proper testing.”
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Ortiz was worried that her reading and writing skills at the basic level “would affect her ability to be successful in college,” but “[t]Not about a month before graduation [Hartford Board of Education] He agreed to conduct additional tests that the plaintiff had sought. “
Hartford’s education lawyers did not respond to Fox News Digital.
“Deeper problem”
Jacobson told Fox News Digital that “fair” teachers and school districts “were caught between the different forces pushing against each other.”
“On the one hand, money is often bound to performance. And if you fail to succeed, if you do not improve them, it could affect the financing the school district gets,” he explained. “There are individual students who have parents who … they want not to perish. And so there is a lot of pressure.”
Law Professor Cornell William Jacobson said two lawsuits emphasize a bigger problem with the US public education system. (East)
An Increasing number of students in public schools They have IEP, which means that more students have individualized learning programs that teachers, who are already flooded with a lack of national employees, must adapt to the law.
“This is a real problem and it is a failure in the core of our education system.”
“Obviously it is different from the district to the district,” Jacobson said. “Some have perfectly good intentions. Some may not be good intentions and they just want to go together.”
Professor Cornella added that although he does not see that he is going anywhere in the future of education, “we have to be very firm that Ai does not finish actually lowering students, not to inform the students, because you can become very dependent on him, which is the other problem, but this is one we cannot neglect.”
Students in the classroom working on their laptops. (Kurt “Cyberguy” Knutsson)
In addition, Jacobson said, parents should be more focused on helping their children to read and write.
“I think parents would better focus on helping students and their children to learn, not take care of the next lawsuit,” he said. “I realize that this could be a bit unrealistic, because we are in the culture of trying to bring lawsuits, but I think our energy should be focused on repairing the system and proper treatment of students, as opposed to: How will we sue the school district?”
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Justin Gilbert, a lawyer representing William A., told Fox News Digital yes “[w]If up to 20% of students in the United States have dyslexia, William’s case enhances the need for teachers trained dyslexia. “
“Most of us take reading healthy for granted, but once we start out of the” reading window “of years of elementary school, learning reading becomes much more difficult,” Gilbert said. “This is especially true of dyslexia students. William’s case is a reminder, though tragic, the need for greater awareness of dyslexia in public schools.”
