Dr. Umar Johnson Believes The IEP/ Special Education Program Makes Our Children Mediocre Pt.10 

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As a former special ed student. When you attend these classes you feel that you learn nothing.

I was also a child who had an IEP from Elementary School to High school and I can tell you that what Umar said in 10:10 is pure FACTS. When kids caught wind of me being in special ed and having an IEP in elementary school, I got bullied relentlessly inside and outside of class. Even to the point of being physically harmed by other kids because of it. It definitely affected my self esteem. After I moved to a new city and started high school in a different area, I always kept my IEP under wraps in fear of facing that same treatment again. Luckily, nobody found out but it still doesn't take back all the mental/emotional damage I have from my younger years in school. Unless your child has a SEVERE mental/learning disability, I wouldn't recommend pursuing an IEP for them.

Thanks to Dr. Umar I pulled my son out of school once they tried to give him an IEP. He warned me I listened, and now my son is a straight A student on his way to Rome for the summer to continue his studies in Latin. This is a child they deemed special needs, don't listen to them parents. Listen to Dr. Umar!!

From a person who was in the special education system my entire life this hurt. It hit right on the nail all the points. I suffered from bullying, doubting myself my entire life. I fought out of special Ed just to be in a normal class. I would ask why am I different what is wrong with me -why am I less? I’m 29 years old I passed with a regular diploma no special education classes at all. Anything is possible if you believe. Push yourself. You can get out and be what you want to be

I’m a school psychologist. I have mixed feelings about this. He’s absolutely right that the school receives more money for special Ed kids. The majority of the referrals come from parents themselves. It’s not mostly teachers pushing for it, the parents always want their kids to be tested especially after report card time. I’ve also seen special Ed services help kids progress and then we declassify the child. There’s also a rift between teachers and admin. Teachers are forced to stick to a curriculum just so these kids can pass assessments. High results make the school look good. It’s way deeper than special ed. I try my best not to classify kids but parents push for it the most. In comparison to white wealthy schools, they love for all their kids to have an IEP. It’s always like why isn’t my kid getting more services? It comes down more to how special Ed services are being implemented. Black schools need to redefine and remodel what special education should be.

Y’all need to put out the whole interview… this brother is dropping knowledge ♥️🖤💚✊🏽

Sped classes should be illegal unless the child is severely disabled. I had no choice, I didn’t give my FUCKING CONSENT TO BE PUT IN THOSE “CLASSES”. Isn’t consent supposed to be everything? Apparently NOT. I suffered for 15 years and I still continue to suffer because of this fucked up systemic segregation that is known as “helping the disableds!”

He's not lying at all. I'm honestly thinking hard hard about strictly homeschooling my son because I feel the IEP in Florida is a complete joke.

As a parent of two kids with I.E.Ps. I'm super grateful to the elementary school Pre-K teacher. A year apart she notice my son's speech was like his sister and was like okay we need to put them in speech asap. My son is autistic by time we got an official diagnosis. He was already good and receiving all the services he needed. My daughter has dyslexia that affected her school she has been getting services too. She was so happy she got the top score in her Class the first time with no help. Because the tools from those service. Now there are alot abuse of the special education services. OAN I would love to see Dr. Johnson and Mr. Julius Malema have a conversation.

I'm black & came from a single parent household. I had horrible Grammer school teachers who were evil racist. I only had one Grammer school teacher that was kind to me and cared about me. Yes they tried to put me in special Ed. But my mom was a pit bull and fought for me. She did HW and studied w/me every night. It resulted in me never getting held back, graduating on time at every rung of my education and earning a College degree. If your parents invest in you and don't rely on the system you can overcome a lot. Dr.Johnson needs to also save some of that smoke for the parents.

You can have an IEP for behavior and no learning disability. I’m a sped teacher who works with behavioral students and most of my students don’t have a learning disability. From my experience, the parents enable the behavior. They constantly make excuses for their child’s behavior, so the behavior doesn’t improve.

My child has a physical disability which is why she has an IEP. She isn't in any special Education classes though. She is in the 9th grade and goes to the same classes as other students with no disabilities.

I had a IEP and I didn't go to jail . I got a master's degree.

I’m a Latino that grew up in the BX this is accurate but while I worked for SSI I saw some parents milking this too. They would want their kids to fall in these categories so they can get a monthly check.

IEP stands for individual education plan. The students in the IEP class are independent thinkers who have been placed In a program because of that. Neuro typical people assume that makes them inferior when I reality the Nuero divergent students is light years more intelligent but due to whatever his condition is Autism, Savant Syndorme, PTSD makes him unfit to be in a regular schooling program. I’m a Harvard PhD student and I started in IEP classes for basically my whole life. Nuero divergents go to IEP classes. There not stupid just different.

I’ve been in school leadership for 30 years. Not once was I directed to push more kids into special Ed due to additional funding. For the last several years, response to intervention has been the mechanism for determining whether or not a child needs special Ed services.

Aaaah I enjoyed this piece but as a Special Education teacher I go hard every day for my students. Will try to be brief. I have that conversation with them right up front. You learn at your own pace, let those around you respect it. I may get a concept immediately, sometime today, next week or never. That is okay we will keep it pushing. It takes the first good month of them knowing that I will not settle with them not doing work. Once the confidence is there ohhhh you should see what they do. I have had my IEP babies as I love to call them return to school to say hi and thank you and tell me how well they are progressing in Math n ELA. Enough off to college, some went on to work. I can share so may good stories. When in place and it is a team effort and you let that student know that it is not the answer it is a support. Lisssten.

This is true,my mom had custody of my cousins children and they all had IEPs but none were in special education classes.Almost all foster care children have IEPs.

As someone who had an iep from 2nd grade till junior year I can definitely say being pulled out of my classes held me back so much i missed out on a lot that my peers were allowed to stay in class and learn. Having an iep made me hate school from having more work than the non special education students to the bullying when other students found out I had one. An iep is just another way to get mentally scared from school

I was on special Ed from first grade until 12th grade. Didn’t have to take the graduation test I remember my teacher telling me in her office that I would fail I’ll never forget it as long as I live. The thing about all this shit is that In the real world you don’t get any accommodations you can either do the job or your fired. Even as a broken 18 year old I knew that so I ripped up all my IEP a threw them away. Even graduation from college didn’t heal those wounds. I remember being so empty because just didn’t care anymore because of what it took to earn my bachelors. It took me 7 years and I had to work so freaking hard to make up for everything. 5 of that 7 years was spent struggling at community college before finally getting my associates. Once I got into a 4 year school I was ready to roll and finished the last 2 years and got my bachelors. But the entire situation was so depressing and exhausting.

I am a person who had an IEP. I had an IEP for talented and gifted though. And because of that, my educational program had to be modified. I got pulled for gifted classes once a week where we learned chess (strategy), worked on logic problems and puzzles, learned thematic units and went on field trips out of state and around the city often. I think this conversation misses the mark from this perspective. My IEP focused on leadership. Gifted IEPs can focus on goals such as increasing creativity, leadership, intellectual, academic, and artistic. The larger conversation should be how do we determine what “reading on grade level” means. The end of year tests are highly flawed and further a harmful narrative.

I'm Puerto Rican, and I vote republican but I am listening to Dr. Umar Johnson he has opened my eyes more and more every day he real. I wish we had someone like him on our side, and I wish blacks like Candace Owen and black liberals would stand by him. I pray for this man

I know so many ppl who failing life today from special Ed.

He’s leaving out the responsibility of the parents.

As a special education teacher I will say that some of this is true- for example, the part about social promotion. However I feel like there is a lot that he is purposefully not saying as well. Please understand that there is usually a long process that has to happen before a kid is given an iep called the intervention & referral services process. During this process, which can last a while , the i&rs team meets with the teacher that is referring the student and essentially tries to come up with interventions for the child. It is only when none of those interventions work that the child is then referred to the psychologists. This can literally take months of data tracking. Often times a teacher will refer a student in one grade and start the i&rs process but then the process not be completed until the next grade. The special education program is vulnerable and can be exploited which is an issue but it’s hardly the cash cow he is making it out to be

IEP plans are unusually for students with behavioral issues. Lack of parenting.

I'm usually on the fence about Dr. Umar but this message right here is so accurate. I knew there was a political issue around special Ed but I didn't know the depths of it. It's so sad that this is some children's reality. We need to educate the parents more.

As a kid in Public School i was once too in special ed.He's speaking real fact's about special education

I seen the IEP destroy so many kids i graduated with from Elementary school and High School and I was almost one of them. I just thank god I had that masculine energy as a kid to make it through and think for myself 💯

True. They are doing a disservice to these kids. They are deliberately miseducating these angels to get them prison bound.They don't have these childrens best interest at heart. They don't progress but regress.

So true! When my son was in 4th grade, his teacher told all parents to get an IEP for their children so that they can recieve more time on their state test. I immediately emailed her and informed her of what an IEP is and that a child has to be diagnosed as having a learning disability. My son was extremely gifted and recieved the highest score on all 3 test without a damn IEP. she responded, apologizing, claiming that she had no idea what an IEP was. The IEP remains on the child's school record!

I’m a teacher. We basically can’t recommend a kid get an IEP without going through an arduous process because if we bring it up the school has to pay for the testing. Parent has to bring it up.

Brother Umar is preaching!!! 🙌🏿 The school wanted to place me into SPED when I was in Elementary school because my siblings were cattle herded into that system. The school convinced my parents that their children “needed” SPED to help them to get ahead. When it came to me (the last child of the family), my mom actually stood up and fought the school instead of letting them put me into special education (learning disabled program), my mother allowed me to receive title I remediation services within the classroom. As a result, I have my masters degree in education as well as national certifications. My mom often states that she feels like special Ed would’ve broken my spirit. She definitely sees how it disturbed the spirit of my brothers who were in it. In the 70s and 80s they were definitely pushing black children into special education programs. One story that kind of broke my heart, but was also liberating was when my mother said that she ran into one of my former teachers in the grocery store and she asked about me. She stated that I would make a good janitor. Mind you this is a White teacher. My mother said that she just grinned and walked away. This is when I was in a masters program in college. I asked my mom why she didn’t say anything, but she said that she had the internal joy of knowing that her child was academically successful, despite what that teacher was thinking. To be completely transparent, I am currently a special education teacher. I get a lot of pushback when I try to reduce services or when I recommend that students return to their general education classroom and SPED services be reduced or removed. Of course, the pushback is from people that are not my color. It’s an epidemic at this point and I really wish that parents would educate their kids at home because teachers Have a tough job. Trying to manage 30+ kids and trying to meet the needs of each one can leave our kids in the dust. Please black parents, there are so many free educational resources through the school system as well as online. Please start exposing your children to learning experiences, as young as infants. Some of my friends and family members that I was preaching this message to turned a deaf ear and now their children are being entered into the special ed program as we speak. It breaks my heart, but I’m not sure what else I can do. I’ll just continue to share my message with those who are receptive.

i agree with him to a certain extent. I had an IEP and it was very helpful for me. I graduated at the top of my class and have two degrees. Also in these IEP meetings the STUDENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE AS WELL. The child has to have a say in their own education. I’m the only one that know what is difficult and what isn’t. And yes you definitely should tell your child about their disability early on so that they can learn their barriers and be able to work through it. I have a hard time with reading and writing. If I was told early on I would have done things differently. But once I learned about my disability I knew I had to do things differently for me. Like spending even more time on studying then others. My IEP TEAM don’t know what I’m struggling with unless I voice it. If i don’t then of course Ill fail. So of what he said is Ableist thinking

31yr white male. Let me tell you just how bad my IEP messed me up threw my late middle school to highschool years, until i got off it when i turned 18. I legitly when threw hell. So here is my IEP storry in short form. Always hated school growing up exactly going to middle and highschool. So i dyslexia and ADHD. I really sucked at spelling and reading of bigger words and certain types of math, at that age of my life. Still deal with it just not nearly as bad as when I was young. You know i basically a normal good in every way, i wasn't slow or anything. I was just treated alot different from the other kids which always bothered me. I certainly needed the IEP help when i was young kid wont deny that. Just when i got older, is when it started to really mentally bother me alot. I hated having a para follow me around to almost all my classes. Its embarrassing when your 15 16 years old. Like i side i was just as normal as all the other kids definitely made me get anxity snd depression and low self esteem. I still battle with all that to this day. My parents got divorced my jr year, which turn my life upside down at 16 years old. Started skipping school just hated life was mad confused. Its tough on a teen. So good ol truancy got me after so long. FYI, this is when the story gets wild. So now both the school and the county court are involved. At the time all i wanted to do was online schooling, it had started getting popular around 2009/10. I also had known people that had ended up doing that in highschool. Thats when my family found out its not possible for me to do that because of my IEP. So my mom and dad told them to tske me off it because we thought that wasn't really fair. They said nope we cant tske him off his IEP . Wtf ? Finally my mom got upset and told them she was letting and allowing me to drop out of highschool. Not possible they said. Basically having an IEP took many of my human and American rights away from me and my family. Supposedly im just not normal and too different. Thats what we got from that meeting. I had court in a few days and my life got even crazier after that day. At court the judge straight up treated me like a bad criminal like a had broke such a big law being on truency and haveing an IEP. I was that At all. I never been in any trouble with the law before. i was 17 at this time. But what crime i supposedly commented was so bad that the judge put me on house arrest for over 5 dang months, still having to go school everday with this around ankle. Now my anxiety and self asteem are even worse. Got the whole school thinking i did something really bad to be on house arrest. My school was a very preppy rich kids school. My family didn't have all to much after my dad lost his business and parents got divorced,.money was very tight. Having to pay over 70 dollars a day while on house arrest didn't help out at all. This is the last bit of my wounderful IEP experience . On my 5th month of house arrest. I just couldn't take the stress thr embarrassment all the anxiety, i finally just shut down and got very depressed. Took only 2 days of skipping school for the cops to come pick me up from my house and tske me back to the evil judge. I tried explaining to her that i was just sad and depressed and didn't want to go back anymore. Even had a psychiatrist note saying having me on house arrest and sending me to juvenile detention was not the right way to handle this situation.i said this crying as my mom and dad sat behind in the court room. You know what this old hag of a judge told me . "Who cares your depressed, you think your the only one who is depressed! " Your just lazy and like disobeying court orders". Then out of no where she tells me. " You will be 24/25 with 3 baby from 3 different women and will be a dead beat dad"! I was beyond confused and sad. So after she disowned me like a was a horrible person. She sent me to juvie for 2 weeks untill i turned 18 at 300 dollars a day my parents had to pay yep fun fun. Still deal with thoughts.from back then. Messed me up for a good few years emotionally. Almost 32 now haven't been to jail since then. i have one 8yr daughter. not 3 or 4 with different chicks like that judge told me lol that's my IEP hell i went threw.

As an educator, I could not agree more. Wow!

💣 dropped.. smh.. my son going through this now. They (teachers, counselor) hate to see me coming. But I must keep Fighting ✊🏾❤️🙏🏾

Why don’t we do something to make our kids smarter and stronger opposed to blaming the system and then putting them in that system?

Absolutely nailed it. I've seen this happen and now I homeschool my kids.

My experience in Special Education hurt me big time, leaving me feeling deeply unsure of my abilities by the time I graduated high school. For 19 years, I was repeatedly told that I wasn't good at anything by everybody which took a huge toll on my self-esteem. I may have a learning disability to some extent, but the emotional toll of constantly being discouraged more than likely played a bigger role in my struggles. leaving high school, I found myself without the necessary tools to address these challenges. Not only did I lack support for my academic needs, but I also carried a heavy emotional burden that hindered my ability to succeed. 10 years later I'm getting certified in cloud computing and finishing a degree in computing systems and applications with a 3.09 GPA. Thanks Special Education for wasting my time, I appreciate it. I'll never get the last ten years back.

I live in the Bahamas, and you never lied. My son was diagnosed Autistic but he's brilliant. I have to put in work. I am about to mainstream him in private school. They wanted to give him riddlen and Concerta. I said no. He started talking, and with additional work, he is doing well.

As a special education teacher I know that the IEP most certainly works when properly implemented. My Scholars are very successful and they don’t get watered down information…they are tight the same curriculum as everyone else. The accommodations needed are real and their exceptionalities are real. What is the brother’s recommendation for providing access to education for students with disabilities in lieu of the IEP. I see it everyday and the need is there. 🤷🏽‍♀️

He forgets to mention that the parents are also on that progress team. It takes parents pushing and pushing to get services for your child. As a parent you have the right to refuse to sign that IEP until it has the support you need for your kids. You also should attend all the budget meetings to see where they are spending those title 1 funds.

Dr. Umar is in the zone! Over ten years ago Dr. Umar through RU-vid schooled me on IEP. The money school get from IEP services is secret and Dr. Umar point on IEP and desegregation is spot on. So who in the system is advocating for Black IEP children? Another story is how non-English is dominating Title 1, 3 & 4, along with IEP.

Not all man are created equal, ask any woman who experienced more than one man.

So how do we as parents get the money that the school is getting!?..How do we fight this system?

I’m going into my first year of teaching, and from the outside looking in this has always bothered me. So validating to hear the explanation behind it, and makes me feel like a have some solid grounds to push back against what I’ve seen in my school. Thank you!!

I was in resource for awhile in school and it made me feel so undervalued, they said I had comprehension problems, which wasn’t true because I was always getting A’s and B’s in reading and writing and was the first to turn in book reports, I understand this conversation I know many students who were worse then me and ended up getting into trouble on the streets killed or incarcerated including my own brother, it’s sad, the special Ed system definitely needs to be reformed..

Thanks Dr.Umar! Wish he would've played the whole interview however I'm grateful for the part he did share. It was definitely informative!

Wow! As a senior in my Early Childhood Ed program this video opened my eyes in a way nothing else has about how many problems schools in America have. It’s sad. And where do we even start?

There is some truth this. Hell the principal told me, " the school receives more money if I accept the I.E.P".....🤔 Sometimes them labeling children at record numbers in a particular district has more to do with funding.

We should not be advancing students without mastery of fundamental, prerequisite educational skills... Never

I'm a resource room teacher, a lot of students benefit from Resource Room, we don't push for self- contain, also a lot of my students exited out of Resource Room. Plus students in Resource Room don't get that extra money, only students that is in self contain classrooms. That small group instruction is handy. Teachers just don't know how to teach students that are two and three grade behind, especially with 30 students in a classroom. Some of my students end up reading better than general education students.

You are a brilliant Leo, may the mighty spirit of the universe bless you and your entire family with unstoppable blessings, one ❤️

My son oldest caught up to his classmates and was supposed to be released from IEP but those pale skin devils kept him in it because they said“ he’s not organized and has bad time management “. I lost my mind 🤬 Needless to say, he was put in normal classes the next day. IEP is definitely a hustle

This is powerful. Black parents listen up!

First of all, special education is a service not a place. Secondly, parental consent is required for assessment and for initial services. Schools can not automatically determine eligibility or provide services without parental consent.

Dr. Umar is on point. As a reading teacher, I have always discouraged parents from having their child referred, especially when they’ve never been pushed academically.

I’m going to watch every episode. Excellent interview.

This is where umar is a master IEPs and sepcial education this is what me brought me to him years ago. Whether you like him or not he is needed.

I taught SpEd and had a few of my students go back to regular Ed for the subjects they excelled in and it was a big fight to get them back into those classes.

All this is so true. Like I was put in a special ed classroom but I didn’t even need it. I was passing and getting good marks. I just don’t understand why they have to label you like that. I did not need to be put in a special ed class yet they still did.

He right tho I had a iep because of behaviour and they used to send me to the special teacher for whatever tbh. If the teacher ain’t want me in class they jus send me to the teacher for sometimes no reason. I wasn’t perfect but I always understood being that paper home to mother and she you know do what mothers do. But my whole elementary school life was an argument between my teacher and principal vs my mother. The special Ed don’t allow the kids to pass. You have to have the grades for it and if you don’t they definitely going keep you in the same grade.

We need the whole interview!!!

Dr. Umar is 1000% correct in this. It’s extremely sad because that label sticks with them for life and not only do they not want to challenge themselves, they know they don’t have to. They learn status quo is ok.

This is b/s. I've been teaching for seven years, multiple districts. The last three as an intervention literacy and numeracy teacher for K-3rd grade students. LITERALLY the heart of where this stuff originates. The only people who wind up in any SpED classes are those who beyond not responding well to our intervention time, also demonstrate behaviors that merit more intensive instruction outside the general classroom model. This notion that schools are just dropping Black and Brown kids in to SpED classrooms is silly...and also a deflection away from a greater truth that folks don't want to recognize: Many of these children come to elementary school much less prepared for not just the learning, but the social element of the classroom environment because they have parents who didn't do that ground work prior to them being enrolled. I've gotten in heated discussions with parents who do EVERYTHING but take accountability for their own inaction, only to find them later getting in to trouble either with law enforcement or CPS, which is the ultimate tragedy here. READ TO THE SEEDS, as Bobby Digital once said.

I mean I have a masters in special education and has written many IEP’s I think there’s some things he’s off on here

I’m a special Ed teacher He’s right about some things and wrong about others Also the IEP team legally needs the sped teacher, general teacher, parent and any related services. Admin is not required

I could relate to this because I was in high school for example when I was in regular high school and I didn't do so well….and they put me in Special Ed high school with crazy teenage kids with learning disabilities that had. But the guidance counselor told me with my aunt that if I didn't pass my high school Regents exams, they would keep me here like the other kids at 21. I passed all six Regents exams and I graduated. I didn't like it, but I got myself out of that special Ed high school. The root cause of students not doing well in school, in my opinion, because their problems at home, and always financial problems that affect the kids.

IEP is not just about teaching those children, but giving them accommodations for behavioral and mental health issues such as more test taking time, access to free tutoring, access to therapists in the schools, individualized accommodations, such as the ability to take frequent breaks, having a class dedicated to work with a small number of students where they have access and time to a teacher who can explain things to them in a less distracted environment. Maybe they have ADHD and get up frequently, they may have an accommodation to stand in the back of the class without penalties. When they do wrong, they get in less trouble, often none at all. Certainly, there may be some negatives in regards to the school, but having a child with an IEP, he would certainly not be successful without it. We get reimbursed for our in home tutoring from the BoE, that as a non IEP student, would be out of pocket and couldnt afford. You have kids with IEPs who have no struggles in regards to learning, but their behaviors get in the way of themselves and other students. For instance ADHD students who are easily distracted, disruptive, etc. Even though they read, write, and do math at or above grade level. It's not just for "dumb" kids.

Really important message!!

I’m Canada we use the IEP system (same program we adopted from the American education system) but we don’t get any money designated to students with spec Ed like in the US. In fact the ministry of Ed is trying to dismantle spec Ed in favour of Universal Design

There may some some truth to this video but the money aspect is not true for our school district at all. Yes, districts receive some funding for special education, but it no way comes to the cost of providing the various services required for students with IEPs. If a student need speech therapy, it has nothing to do with whether they are trying hard or not. The same thing applies to a student who has dyslexia. A student who has dyslexia doesn't need to try harder. They need intensive, expensive systematic instruction. We also have 18-21 year old students who we need to serve as well and it costs a ton of money to pay for their services. The district has to fund most of this ourselves. Having more special education students creates most financial burdens for the district. We do not profit from students with IEPs. Anyone who knows anything, knows that getting speech, physical, occupational therapy is expensive. There is no way around that. Paying for instruction with 1 to 1 or small groups is expensive. It's just common sense.

As a mother of a child with ASD, your narrative is wrong. Special Education is different in every state. Special Ed resources and funds are being used on behavior issues and not learning disabilities.

My daughter is mainly behavioral and we finally are getting behavior therapy for her but they don’t offer that in school either. It breaks my heart because her behavior gets in the way of her learning but the school doesn’t help her with that part

I'm okay with a kid having an IEP, once I see that they are putting in 100% effort and still struggling, as opposed to sitting and playing on their phone or goofing off with their neighbor

It's really not that complicated. If your kid needs extra help - please get them the extra help they need.

He's mostly right, but one of the attractions of special education is not having to pass standardized tests to graduate. If a kid leaves hs and was in special education, it wasn't bc he couldn't pass tests, because those are waived. I do agree about telling them they have a disability. They will find out. But using it as an excuse is the problem. Parents telling their k!ds its ok to have poor behavior or not try is one of the biggest problems I see. Also many parents are young and poor and accept the fact that they get a check from the state for receiving special education services. Some k!ds really need it. Many do not. 9/10 they have emotional and behavioral issues that go back to issues w parents.

I used to think I was smart but this man is educated..

Not for nothing but what good is a doctor that can only talk about the illness but has no cure? We know the system is sick but what is the plan 2023 to save our children from that abuse? Where's the cure doc?? So what has he organized nationally as a counter movement to save our children from that as a school psychologist off the job for 15 years? What has he organized nationally since he promised that school for boys? How many years ago?

He is 100% spot on. They sell this to parents so much its ridiculous. The students know that they can't fail and then the students will tell you what they are not and will not do in the teacher's class. It's a system designed to fail the students in the long run...and it is doing its designed job.

I work in public schools in Philly some of what he says is accurate but I can honestly say I've seen parents push the schools to classify their kids as IEP more than the schools do.

No educator I’ve ever encountered over a decade in sped would put a kid in sped unless it would benefit the children. No one is looking at sped money in this context.

I was put in special ed just because I had epilepsy I started special ed when I was in 4th or 5th grade and remained in special ed throughout middle school and high school and another thing I stopped having seizures when I was in middle school and still they never took me out of special education and believe it or not I actually graduated high school believing that I actually had a chance to go to a nice big university college and continue my dreams of playing sport can you believe I actually still believed I could go to college and play sports and here's why I believed because I was in the system for so long the system raised me to believe as long as I finish each year I can go to the next grade level no one ever mentioned to me or told me in order for you to go to the next grade level you have to take a test

as much as I disagree with the race baiting, I whole heartedly agree with the impact it has on children. ESPECIALLY adolescents! alot of these programs lie about how great their program is in order to get people in the door. they will lie by saying "this program is designed to traject kids into mainstream" then find any and all excuse to hold them back. When I was in this program, I couldn't figure out why I was getting the same grades I was getting despite the work being easy. I remember one day I overheard two teachers talking in front of us saying something to the effect of "just give him a C because that's usually what I just give him anyways" as if grades are something you just lazily arbitrarily give someone. After overhearing this conversation my whole outlook on life shattered and I stopped trying. It didn't help that my parents didn't believe me. As someone who is a parent now I have zero trust and respect towards "teachers". If Child needs a little bit of help I'm going private with my services. I don't trust the state.

Give me 2 mins with this brotha… Ill pay for his convo per min… I can hold up intellectuality.. he would be surprised a man like me can speaks the way i do through the same psychology.. he’s educated, im not.. the way he speaks makes me feel special.. too many strong brothas overlooked

Thank you Dr. Umar. I’m advocating for our black babies

My son have a iep an I feel like he is not getting no where he is only 8years old but they keep passing my son someone please help me

I am a teacher, and I want all parents to read this, do not put your kids in special ed, do not give them an IEP, and be reluctant about giving them a 504, unless they absolutely need it and you get multiple opinions. Kids with an IEP, usually underperform general education kids, not just in school, but throughout their whole life, they give these kids these accommodations, but we must not forget that life is not accommodating!

🤯🤯🤯😱 that’s why! IT ALL MAKES SENSE now!!!

In my district, no students with IEPs can be retained regardless of progress. It's their safeguard.

Change the curriculum in school maybe kids will progress ..

Thanks for this Brother🙏🏿

He’s wrong tho maybe just in semantics. If you have a physical disability or emotional disability you can also have an IEP. Also the double your money argument is broken. Iep students also allow the school to hire SPED teachers and related service providers included counselors and speech therapist and occupational therapists. The money doesn’t just go to the school. Also having more sped kids fucks with the schools data and lowers graduation rates and increases disproportionate student outcomes, and it impacts pacing of instruction and the outcomes of other students. This is coming from a sped licensed teacher and High School Principal. Sped money also is designated and locked in so the sped money MUST BE used for SPED kids. No principal WANTS more SPED students.

You can have an IEP without having a classification of learning disability. There are 6 other classifications. Yes! Special education is becoming a money business. I’m a certified special educator.

Thank you for this, I am loving your perspective..

It’s almost as if nobody can love the child as much as the parent and the parent is actually responsible for the child’s behavior and education. Those teachers keep acting like their world doesn’t revolve around other peoples’ kids. Weird.

This video speaks volumes to the institutional racism and inequities our children face in the USA today. It is really hard to find adequate sources to present these finds empirically. Tonight in my doctoral policy seminar I used this video to portray the vignette of how teachers can fall to political, financial, and racial bias and overrepresent students of color in special education. This video is thought provoking and timely. Although special education may have its positives, similar to the medical models, we are falling to the greed and neglect of cultural and linguistic sensitivity.

Excellent information! Thank you sir for sharing your wisdom. I'm a teacher in a very remote rural area and the same game is played here. It's disgusting and allows teachers to drop the ball.