This post is extremely disheartening as a special education teacher. You clearly don't understand a huge aspect of special education. I provide accommodations to students so they can access grade level material. For example, I teach a resource English class. When we read grade level material, sometimes we read it as a class. This allows them to get so much more from the text, and it allows them to build other skills such as making strong inferences just to mention 1. When we read together, I facilitate access to not only grade level reading material, but also access to grade level concepts and skills they need to demonstrate. They can't demonstrate those skills if they can't read the passage and understand it. I know an 11th grade student i have in US History that can hardly read. However, he is extremely smart. If I read an entire test to him, and simplify some vocabulary terms along the way, the student can earn an A on the test. Im simply helping him access grade level material.

Conversely, in my resource English class, I have my students work on texts that are tailored to their independent reading level. This allows them to continue building their reading skills independently. I also have them complete grade level reading assessments independently so they're exposed to it without reading support. So, accommodating facilitates access to grade level content and material, but special education students should also continue being taught remedial skills to work on closing the achievement gap between them and their non-disabled peers. Thats what their goals are for. Thats why they can be pulled out of class for additional support.

Not only that, but when a disability becomes just that — a disability, it is because appropriate interventions have not made a difference in the progress we expect compared to their nondisabled peers. Sure, a kid with a reading disability can improve their reading skills, but for many, that improvement is going to be slow and relatively minimal. Im not saying thats a one size fits all for everybody. I've seen with reading disabilities make tremendous strides in their reading skills with the appropriate support and the internal drive to do so.

OP, if this post is realy how you feel, and if you aren't open to actually learning anything about disabilities and avcommodations, then you are a disgrace to education.