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Parents battle to recoup special education services lost to Covid
Federal probes and parental lawsuits say districts neglected students who needed most support during school shutdowns
Marissa Sladek knew her son Christopher had fallen far behind when she bought him a copy of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild. The movie had opened just before the pandemic, and survival-themed fiction was his favorite.
The Covid lockdown had cut him off from the literacy support he had been receiving as a special education student. During remote learning sessions, his autism and learning disabilities left him unable to navigate email or video-communication applications. By the following year, when he entered the seventh grade, Christopher was reading near a third grade level.
Read the original article at The Guardian