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Saturday, September 01, 2007

U.S. Special Education Laws Let Cho Go Murderous

Westfield High School in Centreville made special accomodations to help Cho succeed in class.
He graduated with a grade point average of 3.52 in an honors program, and scored 540 verbal and 620 math on his SATs.

These scores were the basis of his admission to Virginia Tech. But what Tech did not know was that Cho had not been graded on class participation because he was in special ed, and federal law prohibits high schools from passing on this info to colleges. In addition, Virginia Tech does not require letters of recommendation, a personal essay or personal interviews in its admissions procedures.
V Tech had no knowledge of the accomodations given to Cho and let him in based on his GPA and SAT scores. Their bad. I would expect that a taxpayer-funded institution at least requires recommendations and an interivew. But...

V Tech did not know that Cho was completely unable to speak in class and had been excused from class participation because his dysfunction was classified as a disability, and so it was it illegal to report that under federal law.

Then, at VT, he wrote murderous papers and the only one who called him out is lesbian radical poet Nikki Giovanni.

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