John Lawrence

John Lawrence jlawrence@reyn.org : Language Arts Instructor for special needs students (Waggoner Road Junior High School)

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• This is the teacher that the RCSD put in charge of exclusively teaching special needs students.

• This teacher claimed that students do not forget basic skills, and accused the disabled child of lying when the child said he forgot previously-learned skills. (NOTE: The RCSD kept the child out of school for several months.)

• This English teacher was confronted about his own forgotten-skills. When he was asked if he could diagram a simple sentence, he literally giggled with embarrassment and gave the excuse, “I don’t think I ever could.” (Like most public schools, passing tax levies has replaced testing of teachers.)

• This teacher was asked to help stop the abuse by RCSD officials. He repeatedly refused to do so... enabling the RCSD to continue their abuse.

• This teacher finally agreed to read the history documenting how the RCSD had abused the disabled child. Click here to read his email reply where he acknowledged knowing about even more abuses to other special needs students. (NOTE: He does not mention any intentions or plans to protect any of the children.)

• Below are the questions that the family of the disabled child requested this teacher to answer. Instead of answering the questions, this teacher forwarded them to the RCSD officials in charge of his abrupt disability-retirement.

Insert your own child’s name to determine if these questions seem unreasonable.

        • Is _____ _____ the only special needs student at WRJHS to be arrested this past school year?

        • Did you agree with this action?

        • Did you see, or have knowledge about, the videotape showing the incident leading to _____ _____'s arrest?

        • Were any Functional Behavioral Assessments done after this incident to modify the Behavioral Intervention Plan specifically for _____ _____?

        • Were any FBAs done, or IEP meetings held with the mandatory members, after any of _____ _____'s four suspensions?

        • Whose decision was it to deny _____ _____ the tic-tacs he was successfully using as a means of self-redirection as instructed by the Independent Educational Evaluation psychologist, Michael R. Markowitz?

        • Were you alarmed by anything in the educational history documented by _____ _____'s family, or by anything _____ _____ shared with you? If so, did you bring forth any of these concerns to school administrators or other officials?

        • After the district was found in violation of procedural safeguards, did they instruct you on the corrective measures to take to avoid further violations?

        • Does the district offer the same type of in-district special needs services to junior high school students as they do for high school students? (I.e. the Trailblazers Program.)

        • Does the Waggoner Road Junior High School offer the same programs as the Baldwin Road Junior High School? (I.e. Fast ForWord and SuccessMaker Math.) If so, were these programs available when _____ _____ attended the Waggoner Road Junior High School?

        • Are all special needs students offered the opportunity to attend schools in the district, or are specific students sent to facilities outside of the district? Is educational performance used to determine which special needs students stay within the district?

        • Do the aforementioned facilities offer equal services and equal activities (i.e. extracurricular activities, counseling, etc.), or do you have reservations concerning special needs students that are sent to these out-of-district institutions?

        • Did _____ _____'s father voluntarily and unilaterally change his son's placement to Brookwood Community Learning Center, or was there pressure from district administrators for him to do so?

        • Do you know of any other retaliatory actions taken by the district against _____ _____ or any other students?

        • Is there anything else concerning the Reynoldsburg City School District, or the alternative placements they use, that you would consider a concern for education and/or law enforcement officials to address?