Diana v. State of Education (Sacramento)

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Diana v . State of Education (Sacramento

The Diana v . State of Education (Sacramento ) case challenged the poor policies in the provision of education to the educable mentally retarded children in California State . Prior to the case , educable mentally retarded programs were based on racial isolation and discriminative assessment in child 's native language . According to the facts of the case , Diana was placed in a class of mentally retarded students for failing an IQ

test in English (Macmillan , Watkins Hendrick , 1988 This placement neglected the fact Diana was a Spanish speaking student On the other hand , the legal provisions of the California state mandated the use of English as an IQ test by psychologists in determining mentally retarded students

However , the court found the practice to be racially discriminative as it eminently errant by placing student in mentally retarded classes simply due to their failure to know English . According to the courts argument , failure to understand English was an issue of native language rather than of mental incapacity to pursue education competitively with other students . Therefore , the court ruled against such practices and recommended that children seeking education in the California state should be given an IQ test based on their native language (Macmillan Watkins Hendrick , 1988 . The court also ed for the retesting of all Spanish-speaking students in their native language to mitigate errors in placement

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