How are services offered at her MS/HS? Around here- its all inclusion with an hour (or two) of intervention during what would be an elective(s). There's no "SPED math" in secondary- there are self contained classrooms (high level needs) and there's inclusion/intervention hour for everyone else. I might argue harder for inclusion now if that's what she'll be doing next year- and use her tutoring time to work on missed topics/firming up lessons.
cmeon, honestly, I don't know. We talked about "looking into" middle school options when we met in December, but I have heard nothing back on that either.
Very minor update-- No response from the teacher yet, but they have apparently now moved onto Chapter 2 in class. DD said they did one day of talking about mixed numbers, then tested them yesterday. I have no idea what that is about.
I found a single resource page from last year's teacher on the steps for converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. I showed it to DD, and she immediately lit up and remembered all the steps.
A lightbulb went off for me, in that I realized that she learned a specific way to do this work last year, but the way they are teaching everything this year is probably different and so it feels like new content instead of a refresher.
I took a shot and emailed her teacher from last year and basically begged her to share the 5th grade resource sheets that she used last year (unfortunately I threw DD's notebooks out at the end of last year, thinking we were done with 5th grade math).
IF she is willing to share them, I'm hoping that the content will feel much more like a review and everything will go faster.
If you're curious, give the middle school a call- the math chair or an assistant principal should be able to answer those questions. Getting the resource sheets with methods she knows is a great idea! I know that retrieval from working memory is a challenge for a lot of dyslexic kids, so she may really need a sample sheet for testing purposes, to get a feel for where she actually is in the curriculum. You are such a good advocate for her, she's going to be fine- but it's just so infuriating that this is the way things are in public ed. Hoop after hoop to jump through.
jinkies , I would also contact the head of special ed at the middle schools you're considering. Explain what's been going on with math the way you have here, and be honest about how upset you are. Their reaction will tell you a lot about whether or not that particular school will take your concerns seriously and be willing to work with you going forward to get your daughter back on grade level. I'd frankly contact them over an assistant principal to get a realistic idea of the support you'll get at that school.