Three Chairs: The Same Dispute From Every Side

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most of what I’ve written here argues a side. This one doesn’t. It hands you three chairs and asks you to sit in the one you trust least.

Here is the dispute, stripped to the bone. This past May, after three years of trying, the district tested my daughter and accelerated her in math — on its own assessment, its own school psychologist, its own rubric. We accepted, with no conditions attached. Then the district attached one anyway: the placement only continues if a district teacher teaches her math during the school day. Otherwise, at the end of the year, she has to “requalify.”

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Three Chairs: The Same Dispute From Every Side