It's sometimes worse than this article describes and it's not just in LA. I grew up in a small town in NH (population ~5k people). I have a close friend whose

It's sometimes worse than this article describes and it's not just in LA. I grew up in a small town in NH (population ~5k people). I have a close friend whose sister was in a "special attention" program (let's call her Jane). Jane was in a program for kids who were "slower" than the other kids. They didn't have any physical learning disabilities, just poorer grades. The time came for the yearly standardized tests (called the CATs in NH). On the day of the tests Jane's class was taken out on a special 'field trip'; they all went bowling. In the morning the kids lined up for class and Jane and her friends gloated to the other suckers who had to stay behind, "We get to go bowling and you have to stay here and take tests." The result? The school's scores were a little bit higher that year.