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Parent tells Highlands County School Board ESE classroom is understaffed, requests action
Summary
At the Oct. 10 Highlands County School Board meeting a parent, Tina Jordan, described multiple incidents and staffing concerns in her child’s ESE classroom at Woodlawn Elementary and asked the board to take corrective action.
Tina Jordan, the mother of a student identified in the meeting as Serenity, told the Highlands County School Board on Oct. 10 that her daughter’s exceptional student education (ESE) classroom at Woodlawn Elementary is overcrowded and staffed by adults without appropriate special-education qualifications.
Jordan described physical marks she said her daughter sustained, inconsistent teacher presence in the classroom, chronic absenteeism for medical reasons, and a lack of informative progress reporting from the school. “Serenity will come home. Mom, I got slapped today. Where’s the report on her getting slapped?” Jordan said during the public-comment period. She said she has repeatedly requested a daily folder of school work…
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