As HISD is poised to remove special ed kids from T.H. Rogers here's what happened to one child when the deaf program was canceled on campus last year.
In many ways Oise Akpiruo is a typical 9-year-old boy. He likes to play with toys, especially trucks. He likes to run and knows to look both ways before he crosses the street because he knows cars can hurt him.
On Thursday night, Houston ISD will hold its monthly board meeting when a lot of Rogers special ed parents and alumni are expected to protest the district's plans to remove these kids from the award-winning school and place them elsewhere in the district. There has already been one public meeting at Rogers itself between administrators and parents and to say it did not go as smoothly as the district would hope would be an understatement.
These are parents who believe the special mission of T.H. Rogers with its three student populations learning from each other — GT, special ed and deaf — should be retained. And they argue, that by including each group in activities in common, that they are, in effect, mainstreaming. Relu is afraid that her son's deafness was diagnosed too late and that because of that he's having a harder time making improvements. He was tested repeatedly while at T.H. Rogers and does hear faint sounds. He had a speech therapist and a memory therapist who helped him review his lessons as did his mother. Even with that help, he was held back in second grade, a suggestion Relu agreed with, so he could make more progress before entering third.
Initially, Oise was being moved to another school in the district, but in a sudden change, officials decided he should go to Billy Reagan instead, she said. Problems with transportation occurred immediately. The school knew he was coming there, but HISD had taken him off the bus list."They had logged him out of his HISD school routes." By the time she got it sorted out, he had stayed home for two weeks with no therapy, she says.
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