ABSTRACT
In January of 1998, the school sent home a form letter asking for parental permission to begin the special-education referral process on Vicky. June stood in her kitchen and told me the reading teacher had called her to explain what the paperwork was. After the phone call with Mrs. Matthews, the reading teacher, June told me what she viewed as the school’s intention for testing Vicky June stated, “She just say that she wanted to, test Vicky and see how she, how she goin’ before she gettin’ into the middle school. And then she just gonna show me what she gonna be test on if I want her tested.”
