#170: They Shut Down Her Classroom Because Kids Were Getting Too Much Help

About this episode

Elyse Scheeler discusses her experiences as a speech language pathologist in the public school system and the challenges faced when her successful program was shut down.

Elyse Scheeler spent years inside the public school system as a speech language pathologist. She had a classroom full of kids making real, measurable progress. The district shut it down — not because anything was wrong, but because her program made their compliance numbers look bad. That's when she knew she had to leave. In this episode Elyse pulls back the curtain on what school staff see every single day but aren't allowed to say out loud. She couldn't tell parents what she suspected. She...

People in this episode

Host: Cheryl

Guest: Elyse Scheeler

Topics covered

• education
• speech language pathology
• public school system
• compliance
• parenting
• child development

Keywords

• speech language pathologist
• public school
• classroom
• compliance numbers
• education system
• child progress
• parent communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: public school system

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