Parents have NO Voice at IEP's!! My daughter's educational rights have been violated ~ nobody cares!

I feel like my daughter's RIGHTS to a FREE PUBLIC Education have been violated, taken away, raped, dissed, shit on, thrown away, absolutely watered-down, low expectations of her to no expectations, not believing in her, discriminated against, locked out, kicked out, ABSOLUTELY FORCED OUT! 

It's digusting those that work for Broward County Public School District and their ESE could give a hoot! They're just glad to have a job some of them! 

If only I could "give the grade" to the teachers that have had the pleasure of my 2 Children sitting in their classrooms each year! There would be a few that would be fired for sure!! Principals should be surveyed by the parents each year as well too!!

LET THE PARENTS GRADE THE TEACHERS! 

*There have been way more AWESOME Teachers that do a remarkable job and love teaching than the really rotten bad meanies that need to go! 

It takes one bad apple to make the whole pile stink!!

The IEP "Process" and what has taken place today at my daughter's final IEP meeting for her Public Education is not something I would wish on any parent to have to go through!! Then to have 10 of them within 8 months time especially!!

To have to endure 10 IEP meetings in one school year (8 months) speaks volumes at how relentless the district has been to "GET THAT IEP WRITTEN JUST THE WAY THEY WANT IT!" The parent will be out numbered, and after-all...."they are the professionals"....and yes in their "professional opinion..blah blah blah!!" Let's not forget the 'behind the scenes' players that have accomplished to have so many of my daughter's IEP goals deleted, 'mastered, removed without holding any sort of meeting with the parents invited to be part of. Absolute craziness that would drive anyone cranky!!

What has been everyone else's experiences with these types of contentious IEP meetings? Is this what happens at Middle School for students needing Special Education? If you ask me...it smells like a pre-meditated, pre-planned hostile take-over and take-down during my daughter's IEP's...since May 30th, of last year..2012! Was it because my daughter was entering Middle school? 
(*retaliation is hard to prove...) 

I think I have PTS from this crap all year!! I have plenty of 'paper-trail' from all the cat & mouse emails that have taken place and taken up all my volunteer hours as a parent this year.

I wonder how much it cost to hire those two nice ladies that were flown in from two different States, Arizona and Tenn. to facilitate my daughter's annual IEP? Yes they were nice and tried to help but really it was just another big waste of more of our tax-payers money! Then the iep doc. still wasn't finished so it needed to be continued on May 14th. The "shut-down" was held today on May 28th. ....and well it was exactly as they wanted. 

Not sure if this IEP even needed to take place and be closed out, since I did sign a Public Education WITHDRAWAL form on Friday May 24th, 2013. I should have done this months ago!

I need a LAWYER to right the wrong that has been allowed to take place at the expense of my daughter's education!

Public school 'employees' today are like ROBOTS doing as they are told to do and nothing else or they could........loose their jobs! 

Today it seems to be a dictatorship in public education and if you have a child that learns differently, your child is the square peg they want to put in the round hole! It's not going to work....so then....we leave.

I feel forced out...those that have caused it...could care less. They are happy about it, gloating some of them I'm sure of it!

Read my Due Process Final Orders here:
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7675/urlt/0069820-12-3961.pdf

My DUE PROCESS Final Orders listed on the FDOE website 12-3961E December 2012

My DUE PROCESS Final Orders online!
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7675/urlt/0069820-12-3961.pdf

Want to read about a few DUE PROCESS Final Orders received in Florida? 
January - June 2013 on the FDOE website.
Case Number                 District Order Date
12-3961E (PDF, 234KB) Broward February 28, 2013

12-3961E is my DUE PROCESS Final Orders, that are now PUBLIC! I will be posting the TRANSCRIPTS too!

To read other DUE PROCESS Final Orders between Jan.-June 2013 in Florida click this link:
http://www.fldoe.org/academics/exceptional-student-edu/dispute-resolution/due-process-hearing-orders/2013.stml
This is the OLD DEAD LINK that was listed on the FDOE website that is now a dead link. I think the FDOE does this every so often to create dead links to documents. http://www.fldoe.org/ese/due-order.asp

In order to fully understand what all the original issues and concerns were and my reason for filing such a long laundry list of IEP/ESE concerns and ultimately led to my filing for a due process in the first place, you may want to read my original email sent to Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie in my previous blog post. 

It has been an absolute nightmare navigating the IEP "Process" as it is now operating in Broward Public School District today! 

Parents have had NO VOICE OR SAY-SO in the educational decisions being made for our Children at these often times, contentious and confrontational IEP meetings for our Children.

SB 1108 will create some good changes for parents at the IEP tables in Florida.

MY DUE PROCESS AMENDED on 12.17.12. w/ORIGINAL Due Process sent to Broward Superintendent Runcie

This is my DUE PROCESS COMPLAINT with Broward County Public School System ~ This is my 12/17/12 Amended email I sent to Superintendent Robert Runcie. Read it and tell me if any of these sort of things have happened to you when you've been advocating for your Child's education? 

Re-reading this still makes my stomach turn! What has systematically taken place to FORCE my daughter onto the NON-DIPLOMA "Special Diploma" track and to have her iep goals replaced with "canned" goals without me being in attendance to be goals she had already mastered from the previous IEP's from a year ago. This seemed to be strategically done to make her look more behind than she actually was as she was entering her Middle school years. 

What has been allowed to take place here in Broward County Public School District should not have gotten to this level with such a long laundry lists of complaints from me. 

Here is my final orders from the Due Process I filed with the Florida Department of Education on December 12th, 2012. Click here
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7675/urlt/0069820-12-3961.pdf

I am Mariah's mom, doing what any good parent would and should be doing; advocating for my daughter's right to an education. 

The amount of excessive waste of TAX-Payers money $$ defending themselves $$ by forcing me to file a Due Process is shameful! It never should have gotten to the level to file a Due Process in the first place if the district was supportive to the education of my daughter. 

My goal is that my Little Princess be provided a Quality Education and is actually EDUCATED, with the ESE Supports & Services that she needs to be successful! 

Instead my daughter's abilities were written on 5/30/2012 much differently, lower to make her look more behind, her iep goals went backwards to be goals she had already mastered previously. Mariah's future educational goals and dreams for a career to eventually become a Vet Tech have all been taken away from her with the Special Diploma Track she has now been forced on and at my losing in the Due Process I filed. 

She will not be allowed to be educated to learn and earn a real high school diploma. This I am still not in agreement to!!!

What I see happening with many of our ESE students today is when they are taken off the Regular Diploma Track then their education becomes a; 
"VERY EXPENSIVE BABYSITTING SERVICE!!"
Listen to the NPR-National Public Radio clip 


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Hello Superintendent Runcie,

Sad to inform you of the little girl with Down syndrome that is learning how to play the Violin and you have ‘’connected with” on several occasions since you became our Superintendent but at this time I am requesting a Due Process for my daughter, Mariah Harris.

She lives at ..................Fort Lauderdale, FL ....-....

She attends Parkway Middle School of the Performing Arts. Accepted and participating

In the STEM Magnet Program.

*1^st Student with Down syndrome to be accepted into the STEM MAGNET Program!

1.      I am not in agreement with the proposed non-phonics based reading program, Failure Free Reading for my daughter Mariah Harris, since she already knows phonics and knows how to read as a solid upper 2nd grade reader. It seems at the suggestion from the ESE Department Director, Denise Rusnake, that 20 Middle Schools in Broward will now be using the Failure Free Reading Program, and it seems even if the student has working knowledge of PHONICS the school is now pushing this NON-PHONICS BASED program on my child no matter what, which I absolutely disagree with for my daughter, Mariah Harris.   I was not provided any information about this program, I researched it myself on their website and I don't see it being what is best suited for my daughter.

1a. I believe it would be better for my daughter to continue with the WILSON READING PROGRAM that my daughter loves and is very familiar with and has shown much success in….if taught by a CERTIFIED WILSON TEACHER only, as the teacher she has now is trying to show she is not progressing just to push her out of her classroom and into the NON-PHONICS BASED program in and ESE Resource room, I believe. She showed success her 1^st year in Wilson at Stephen Foster Elementary school. Both Wilson teachers are NOT CERTIFIED WILSON TEACHERS!! AMENDED on 12/17/12. Both of Mariah’s 5^th grade and 6^th grade WILSON READING TEACHERS did not and are not providing FAPE via the WILSON READING INSTRUCTION as intended by the Barbara Wilson Reading Program because both 5^th and 6^th grade WILSON Reading teachers are not FULLY CERTIFIED in WILSON READING INSTRUCTON. Broward County School District ESE Department does not require Broward school teachers that teach WILSON to actually be certified in WILSON READING as the company recommends for the program to be taught with fidelity.

1b. AMENDED on 12/17/12. Persistent recommendation from Mariah’s Intensive READING teacher, Ms. Maxwell and the IEP team, (district employees only) to move Mariah to the most restrictive ESE classroom placement for a non-phonics based reading program without any discussion about exactly what that Failure Free Reading curriculum would exactly be, after requesting information about it in writing ahead of the TIEP meeting, denies her right to LRE-Least Restrictive Environment for her Specially Designed instruction for intensive reading.

1c. AMENDED on 12/17/12. That Mariah be provided WILSON READING INSTRUCTION by a WILSON CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR the way the Barbara WILSON READING Program was specifically designed in relation to class size and the WILSON Certification requirements recommended by the WILSON READING Company.

2.      I am not in agreement with my daughter being pulled out from her Gen. Ed. 6th grade math class to be put into an ESE class for a Math program that was never discussed as to exactly what it would be. Mariah loves Math, but has not had the support from her Gen. Ed Math teacher, Ms. Wavde from the beginning of the school year, as she has made it perfectly clear she does not wish to teach my daughter grade level math in a diversified math classroom. I requested a Math teacher change because of this, which has not been taken seriously. There has to be another Math teacher that would be supportive and collaborative having Mariah in their classroom. AMENDED on 12/17/12. Recommendation from Mariah’s Math teacher, Ms. Wavde and the IEP team, (district employees only) to move Mariah to the most restrictive ESE classroom placement without any discussion about what the ESE Math curriculum would be, denies her right to LRE-Least Restrictive Environment for her Specially Designed instruction in 6^th Grade Level Math instruction.

2a. The solution for Math would be to find a teacher that wants to be supportive of a student with Down syndrome and give the teacher ESE Support or a Co-Teaching model to continue to teach my daughter GRADE LEVEL Strategies to help my daughter with both teachers having high expectations of my daughter instead of the low expectations from her current 6^th grade math teacher.

3.   I am in disagreement with questions number #2 and #3 pertaining to State and District Testing. I am also in disagreement that the IEP team that haphazardly constructed the IEP document on 5/30/12 saying she had been on Access Points and the Alternate Assessment her final year of elementary school as she took the FCAT 2.0 her 2nd year of 5th grade, so that is lie that she was *AMENDED on 12/17/12. ever on Access Points during the 2011-2012 school year AMENDED on 12/17/12. or ever!

3a. I feel my daughter is being discriminated against because she has Down syndrome and she gets Level 1's on her FCAT's over the years. My recommendation is for my daughter, Mariah Harris to be put back on the STANDARD DIPLOMA TRACK immediately and be provided any and all support she will need to be as successful as she possible can on the FCAT! The law does not state that if students get a Level 1 on their FCAT’s that that they must then be FORCED OFF the STANDARD DIPLOMA OPTION which is what is being done to my daughter, Mariah Harris. This feels like discrimination and retaliation from your 9^th floor ESE district staff! AMENDED on 12/17/12. Stephen Foster Elementary Principal, Mr. Ricky Grimaldo, CENSORED all of my emails and denied teachers the entire 2011-2012 school year, other than my daughter’s homeroom/science teacher from freely communicating with me when I sent emails. Mr. Ricky Grimaldo, denied my right to a request for an interim IEP on March 10^th, 2012, ultimately my parental involvement my daughter’s final year at Stephen Foster Elementary was not what it had been in previous years. Censorship and Retaliation against me as an involved parent advocate for my daughter, Mariah Harris was met with closed doors by the new Principal, Mr. Grimaldo. Ultimately at my daughter’s 5/30/12 IEP I felt I was bullied out of the IEP meeting that I had originally wanted back in March to discuss 5^th grade math issues going on and an upcoming 16 hour away out of County Field Trip I had concerns about my daughter’s 1:1 Unique Aide not being allowed to assist my daughter. This was a decision made by Mr. Ricky Grimaldo and no other.

She is receiving SES Tutoring services and would not have been eligible for those services if she hadn't be on a Standard Diploma track and taking the FCAT.  A solution would be for her to be put back on the Standard Diploma Track as she has always been with all allowable Accommodations and the support of and ESE Support teacher as a co-teaching model if that is what the Gen. Ed Teachers need to support Mariah in Gen Ed.

4.   I am in disagreement with my daughter missing 2 entire class periods each week just to receive her Speech and Language services, when it is causing her to miss 2 entire class periods. (Social Studies & STEM class period)

4a. To continue to provide Mariah her Speech and Language services as she has always had over the years while attending Elementary school of just 20 minutes at the very beginning of every day so she isn’t missing 2 entire class period each week that only sets her back in those classes. The way it it is being done is causing her to suffer in those classes.

5.   I am in disagreement with statements made that my daughter is prompt dependent from Ms. Carole Weisel her Unique Aide.

5a. I requested and suggested a fading of support once Mariah is within her classrooms and to provide Mariah with peer support when needed. Mariah has the ESE Support of Peers but I don't believe that is being provided as it has in the past. I have always made it perfectly clear in my Parent Input and at every IEP that FIN-Barbabara Krakower can help implement the PEER BUDDY PROGRAM that should have already been up and running in at least 1 of our Public Schools and I am willing to help at Parkway with this. Peer support that my daughter and others would benefit is more cost effective and children respond better with their same age classmates. Parkway ESE Staff are stating that my daughter, Mariah Harris has become; “prompt dependent’, which is their doing because Mariah is very independent!

6. I am in disagreement with the Student Interview that was inserted into different parts of the TIEP as I did not give permission for my daughter to be interviewed. There are things noted that are totally inaccurate and paint a different picture that just are not true of my daughter Mariah Harris. They would not remove the untruths or put in my parent input.

6a.  I am requesting the information that my daughter Mariah spoke about when she attended her own very 1^st TIEP meeting several meetings ago, that the that information she shared be added as part of her Student wants and needs of herself and what she wants for her future. She was able to share clearly what was important to her and why, but none of this information has ever been capture in any of the 5 TIEP meetings held. She has attended several of her TIEP meetings and none of her input at that time has been captured in writing thus far. Some staff sat their and ‘rolled their eyes’ while she was speaking and showed no respect to her input or my desire to have her present herself in the positive way she did.

My parent input has always been “tampered with”, omitted and changed around and then saying there is no way to include it into the TIEP document because it was a…”multi-meeting IEP”, but they would include it in a FAX Attachment. My parent input needs to be included in the IEP document itself and not as an attachment FAX!

7.   I am again requesting that my daughter be provided an alternate drink (Almond Milk) during lunch as has always been provided a non-milk substitute for her lunch drink since she was 4 years old throughout all her elementary school years. My daughter has not been provided even a simple cup of water or ice tea which could have easily been accommodated since the start of school on August 20^th, 2012. To find out at the end of November that she still has not been provided an alternate drink to go with her lunch is a violation of her right to an alternate drink because she is lactose intolerant. Her Doctor signed paperwork had been LOST and I have provided this same paperwork now going on 3 different times from my doctor’s office. Not once has anyone from the school told me she still was not being provided any drink during her lunch meal. I found this out by my daughter telling me she is thirsty at school. Mariah's Doctor's office has always complied with providing the needed paperwork pertaining to her need for an alternate drink and her restricted 1800 calorie a day diet with adult supervision to make low calorie choices during her lunch meal.

8.   I am not in agreement with many of the lower expectation goals that were created at the 5/30/12 and now AGAIN at the 11/29/12 TIEP meeting as they have been written in such a way that makes Mariah out she like she was not on her way to being an emerging 3 grade level reader. I am not in agreement with the results of DAR or the DRA's as they always say 1.1 or 1.2 which I find outrageously low because she is reading upper 2nd grade, 2.5 - 3.0 on a consistent basis according the AR/Accelerated Reading Program.

8a. All the goals that my daughter was working on last year in 5^th grade at Stephen Foster Elementary school have been “adulterated” and closed out without my parent input, goals that have been set as mastered and weren’t, goals that were discontinued that she should still be working on are lost in all the crazy rush to tear down my daughters well written IEP by the ESE Department Head Denise Rusnake and her handful of Program Specialist, including our Due Process person, Lida Yocum (retaliation against me as a Advocate for Down syndrome) (prior to the 5/30/12 IEP meeting) she had in  place before her Transition IEP into Middle school just to confuse and create lower expectation goals. The goals do not match the AR records and her progress made in reading.

8b. I again am requesting that her AR records be taken into consideration and used as a more accurate snapshot of my daughters reading abilities. Also, I have asked if AR can be used while she is attending Middle school, but not one person replies back to me on the use of AR while in Middle school. CAN the AR- Accelerated Reading Program be used for Mariah while attending Middle School?

8c. AMENDED on 12/17/12.  My FULL PARENTAL PARTICIPATION was not allowed or encouraged as it relates to the continuation of the 5/30/12 IEP meeting because I was ‘bullied out of’ the IEP Process by a ESE Department sent District Program specialist, K. Edie. I was the party that requested to have an IEP in the first place back on March 10^th, 2012 with the meeting taking place finally on 5/30/12. I asked to STOP the meeting, because within 7 minutes of beginning and before introductions of IEP team participates were named, it was recommended that I ‘could do recourse’ if I was NOT IN AGREEMENT to making this particular 5/30/12 IEP meeting into Mariah’s ANNUAL IEP. Again I was the one that had requested for an INTERIM IEP to update her IEP before transitioning over and onto Middle school. I was denied to ever have an INTERIM IEP that had been requested since March 10^th, 2012 yet was not provided any IEP meeting until 5/30/12. The meeting started out contentious and I was being forced to making it my daughter’s ANNUAL IEP to which I was not prepared for an ANNUAL at that time and was told it was the District “BEST PRACTICE POLICY”. I had requested from the district this policy in writing 2 weeks prior to the meeting and then again during the 5/30/12 IEP meeting to which I was not provided the districts, BEST PRACTICE POLICY that was being forced on me.  My daughter’s Annual was not due till the end of September, 2012.

8d. AMENDED on 12/17/12. To  consider the goals that were closed out, discontinued, rewritten without my parental participation to lower standards, some goals stated as mastered, that those original goals be brought back to the table and looked at with fidelity with my daughter’s unique and specially designed instructional needs in mind.

9. At this time I am requesting that my daughter’s AT-Assistive Technology (laptop & software programs) be used as they always have been. Parkway teachers and ESE Support staff have not been allowing my daughter, Mariah Harris access to using her laptop and software programs to help her with her goals for writing and accessing alternate format of core class content.

10.   At this time I am in total disagreement with the 11/29/12 TIEP meeting and how I feel I was "water-boarded" because of the time that was spent at this particular meeting. It was recommended that the meeting would be from 9AM till 2:30PM. I had emailed a request for it to end at 12:30PM because my daughter had a dental appointment at 1pm. *No one responded to my email request for it to end at 12:30pm but at the beginning of the meeting it was noted that it would indeed go till 12:30PM, but ended up going till 5:30PM long after my husband, he was only able to attend for about an hour and my advocate had to leave to pick up her own 2 children from the bus and she had left earlier in the day. They wanted me along without support of my husband or my advocate. I learned from my experience that this district will go ahead and do whatever they please if a parent requests to STOP or set up another meeting that you don’t walk out of a meeting because that is what happened to my meeting on 5/30/12. They will go ahead and have the meeting without you and your input. Broward County Public School ESE Staff at the District level (9^th floor administrators and at the school level, ESE Specialist just do not really care about our students needing ESE Supports and services!)

11.   At this time I am requesting that my daughter Mariah Harris not be interviewed, tested, assessed or removed from her General Education classrooms without my written permission other than the testings approved at her reevaluation plan meeting that was recently held.

12. At this time I am requesting maybe a change in school may need to take place since the attitude of the ESE Specialist at Parkway has always been unprofessional, contentious and unworkable with Mariah’s parents. I am thinking that there has to be a Middle school out there that has workable ESE Staff (Specialist) and Gen Ed teachers that have a better attitude towards students & their families with disabilities. I have heard that Falcon Cove Middle school is doing some awesome things that maybe should be the leader in how other Middle schools treat their ESE population of students and their parents…with respect. If Parkway ESE staff continue with treating my daughter like she can’t ‘function’ and they don’t provide the ESE Support and services that she needs I will have to ask that we find a better school suited for Mariah Harris. Parkway Staff need Down syndrome specific training in order to make my daughter’s 3 years of Middle school worthwhile… I would recommend bringing in Kansas City Down syndrome Association to do a District wide Down syndrome specific training for all of Broward County Public School ESE Staff and Gen. Ed teachers that may have a student now or in the future sitting in their classrooms. There has never been any Down syndrome specific training ever in this district and the time is now for it! We do not need to continue to deny the same educational opportunities for students with Down syndrome just because there is still a prejudice towards a whole population of students here in Broward County Public School system.

13. AMENDED on 12/17/12. At this time I am charging that my daughter’s elementary school, Stephen Foster Elementary did not provide FAPE to my daughter, Mariah Harris. A public agency must provide an eligible child with a disability special education and related services. Under 34 CFR §300.39(a), special education means specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability.  Specially designed instruction means adapting, as appropriate, to the needs of an eligible child under this part, the content, methodology, or delivery of instruction: (1) to address the unique needs of the child that result from the child’s disability; and (2) to ensure access of the child to the general curriculum, so that the child can meet the educational standards within the jurisdiction of the public agency that apply to all children.  See 34 CFR §300.39(b)(3).  Therefore, regardless of my 


Here is the link to my Final Report to my Due Process I filed with the FDOE on December 12th, 2012
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7675/urlt/0069820-12-3961.pdf

Equine-Assisted Therapies of South Florida

Mariah loves this place! Today she gets to ride a new horse! She's a Halfinger pony named, Maggie. Such a pretty horse! Mariah was so happy to ride such a beautiful horse today!

This place is our peace!

Equine-Assisted Therapy of South Florida in Coconut Creek, Florida inside Tradewinds County Park.

http://equineatsf.org/

Always Ice Cream & Clever Dragons FUN Educational websites!

Here are two really FUN Educational sites!

Always Ice Cream 
http://always-icecream.com/login
Clever Dragons
http://clever-dragons.com/login

Mariah's 1st Day in ESE Resource Room for her 6th Grade Access Point Math! They've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!

Today against my GUT FEELINGS as a mom....

Mariah attended her very 1st day in an ESE RESOURCE ROOM for MATH! The photo's included in today's post below are what Mariah brought home her first day in the 6th GRADE ESE MATH class. This is what they call 6th GRADE ACCESS POINTS? 

They've GOT TO BE KIDDING...RIGHT??! 

This is so not what she needs to be doing at her Grade Level or for her age!!! She doesn't even have any Math Goals written into her IEP Document anymore and this is what she finally gets "to learn" in the ESE Room? 

FAPE at it's Finest!!

Today when I was looking over her NEW ESE Math Classwork she brought home from school, l was talking with Mariah and asked her about these Math Problems. She answered them all correctly just talking to her after school. *I think maybe she was thinking of Multiplication with the 0+1 and the 0+3, because Triple-Digit Multiplication is what she has been working on at home, using a calculator.

My daughter is capable of doing much more than  this stuff that came home today, on her 1st day in an ESE Classroom for Math!! This is 6th Grade ACCESS POINTS in Math!?

This is disgusting to me that my daughter's ABILITIES in Math have been WATERED-DOWN to  the Kindergarten Level when she is ABLE to do much higher level thinking in Math computations, using a calculator as her accommodation.

She knows how to divide and multiply, how to change fractions into decimals etc. She LOVES Math and using her calculator! She needs those that are in charge of teaching her, to pump it up a notch and TEACH HER higher level math skills that match HER NEEDS, not to an informal assessment that doesn't reflect her True Abilities!

I do not agree with my daughter now being 'taught' such low grade level Math work, when this is nowhere near what 6th GRADE ACCESS POINTS are! This is far below her Math Abilities!! 
*ESE FAPE Math is way below her Ability to do Math!

Here is a Sample of the Math Problems Mariah enjoys doing once on a roll of doing them. Once shown HOW TO DO THE PROBLEM and has time to practice and practice a few times how to go about getting the answer, she CAN DO IT! She LOVES Math when she is able to have 'a moment' to be TAUGHT the exact way how to go about getting the answer. 

It's predictable....the steps to get the answer!

*Mariah will continue to do Higher Grade Level Math 
Problems at Home. That is in the Best Interest for Mariah's Progress in Math. 
5th Grade Math Worksheets ~ Great Schools.org
http://www.greatschools.org/worksheets-activities/slideshows/6381-fifth-grade-math-worksheets-slideshow.gs