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echo: educator
to: SHEILA KING
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-09-16 22:45:00
subject: Re: Ann Landers letter

SK> I don't think she's talking about medical treatment in general. Only
SK> about diagnosing learning disabilities. Isn't this a federal law? I 
SK> know
SK> it is the case in California that the public schools are required to
SK> perform testing if parents request it (of course, how they go about 
SK> it,
SK> and in what time span, varies), and I've participated in other forums
SK> where teachers from other states indicated this is also the case 
    A friend here told me that trying to get his kid, who had already been 
diagnosed ADD, into special classes (or getting any other help) from the 
Guilford County Schools verged on impossible and had been a multi-year 
struggle.  (FWIW, that system is for a metro area population 300,000+)
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