What evidence did you notice to indicate an improvement had occurred?
‘Only quoted’ as saying they had some learning issues at school and had fallen behind. Maybe you don’t see that as cause for alarm but I sure do. It’s the responsibility of the school system to educate ALL children and if there’s something preventing them for doing so they should care. Thankfully it’s no longer the way to ignore the children that can’t keep up. Studies have shown the importance of early education is strongly connected to later success in life.
Whether or not this has any connection to their disappearance, hopefully time will tell.
JMO
We don't know about the timing of any of the communications thus far, only that MBM said they had fallen behind and DM said they were about to be evaluated the next week after they disappeared.
For all we know MBM could have done everything she possibly could and was expected to do once it became an issue teachers brought up, and was eager for the upcoming evals.
A 2 year old and 5 year old are on the young side for being evaluated in my experience, in the US public schools anyway.
In my personal experience in several regions I've worked in and having several family members and long time friends who work with children with learning or behavioral issues, there are differences of opinion on when evals are warranted and what to do with the results in deciding on the best support and acommodations if needed in providing the best educational environment for a given child. No less how to implement accomodations and then gauge improvements.
Imo, the whole process can drag out even with school aged children (older than preschool/kindergarten aged Jack and Lilly), and even if they have full participation from the family and teachers and an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) in place.
I know many kids and their families who had to wait months & sometimes years for the issue to be raised, the evals, the IEPs to be put in place, reassesed and tweaked along the way sometimes with no clear benchmarks to measure if it was working/the child's learning experience in school was improving.
I have a 6 year old family member first flagged by teachers in preschool as possibly having issues affecting his ability to function as well as the rest of the kids in a school setting, and the school first met with his parents to get the ball rolling, in the Summer, like Jack & Lilly, and they told the parents he should be evaluated once school started, and it took a whole school season for the evals to happen, and the whole time the parents were totally onboard and very eager to get him evaluated and seek the support he may need.
This is the crux of the matter, IMO, that we don't know any details about where in the process they were with Jack and Lilly, and whom did or didn't do what might have been expected or after waiting how long, etc.
So without evidence to the contrary, it's purely speculative, like many aspects of this tragic case, with regards to what MBM did or didn't do for her kids or if she had or had not yet to be given the tools and advice and a plan to participate in addressing their issues.
Because nothing has come out about it at all except the 2 statements above about them falling behind and about to be evaluated from MBM, and DM, respectively.
MOO
