Guest guest Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 That is an interesting point you made. Very True. We recieved our copy of my son's IEP today to review before we sign (LOL) and with it was a copy of IDEA from the school. I am going to have to read it again and see why they sent that home for the third time. Is someone trying to tell me something? HUMMMMM. I am so tired of being taxed to death and not getting what is legally right to begin with. Sorry I just needed to complain. The Marotta Family <marottafamily@...> wrote: I just received a big packet of free information from the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities. It includes mainly information on IEPs and IDEA and FBA, etc etc. Excellent resource. Each county has its own OCECD, and if you'd want this info as well, you could call 1-800-374-2806 and ask for the number of your county's OCECD. They also have a parent advocate who can give advice. My first reaction was, how nice! A needed resource for parents!! Then I thought, what's wrong with this picture?: First taxpayers pay for schools. BUT WAIT! The schools were choosing not to teach children with disabilities! So our tax supported congress had to spend time crafting what is now IDEA. BUT WAIT! Schools were counting on parents being ignorant of federal law to evade properly teaching children with disabilities. So we are taxed once more to support agencies, like OCECD, to force schools to obey the law via embarrassment. What a waste of money. Chris Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 By law the school district has to make sure you have IDEA literature/info. The school districts love to give you copies of it to show they are compliant with IDEA...what a joke! > I just received a big packet of free information from the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities. It includes mainly information on IEPs and IDEA and FBA, etc etc. Excellent resource. Each county has its own OCECD, and if you'd want this info as well, you could call 1-800-374-2806 and ask for the number of your county's OCECD. They also have a parent advocate who can give advice. > > My first reaction was, how nice! A needed resource for parents!! > > Then I thought, what's wrong with this picture?: > First taxpayers pay for schools. BUT WAIT! The schools were choosing not to teach children with disabilities! So our tax supported congress had to spend time crafting what is now IDEA. BUT WAIT! Schools were counting on parents being ignorant of federal law to evade properly teaching children with disabilities. So we are taxed once more to support agencies, like OCECD, to force schools to obey the law via embarrassment. What a waste of money. > > Chris > > > *Just Some Group Notes: > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > We can help raise money for ASO (Autism Society of Ohio). Just by using a charity based search engine. Search for anything you need info on. 2 steps: Just click on the link then type in Autism Society of Ohio and hit verify. Then type in your search word. heres the link: http://www.goodsearch.com > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > When Adding to your email address book, don't forget to include the s in groups. Here is the complete address: > > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > Our Parent Contact list - see a printable list or add your contact info: > > See the printable list: /database? method=reportRows & tbl=2 & sortBy=1 & sortDir=down & startAt= & prntRpt=1 > > Add your contact info here: /database? method=addRecord & tbl=2 > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > Would you like to invite a friend to our group? > Would you like to handout information about our group to your area meeting? > Just print out some handouts from this link: > http://f4.grp.fs.com/v1/AIN0RLAa_M73oRrFIxpAYAoyKhpUQjhAQwLZyn- aHudv5wBIo5CIDOYwMaYSuKIwsAQHkU2a2WBN2D3h6hU6ig/ -Handout.doc > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > See our group photo albums or Add your family photo album here: > http://health.ph./group/ /photos > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > is a networking and support group > of " Parent to Parent for Autism " . > Website: http://hometown.aol.com/parentschat/homepage.html > > ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 In a message dated 5/30/2006 6:33:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, marottafamily@... writes: Then I thought, what's wrong with this picture?: First taxpayers pay for schools. BUT WAIT! The schools were choosing not to teach children with disabilities! So our tax supported congress had to spend time crafting what is now IDEA. BUT WAIT! Schools were counting on parents being ignorant of federal law to evade properly teaching children with disabilities. So we are taxed once more to support agencies, like OCECD, to force schools to obey the law via embarrassment. What a waste of money. Chris And that's only IF they are embarrassed into obeying the law at all. Some have no shame. I am happy to say that ours is improving. But I really agree with you Chris. I know my family has suffered greatly due to public "educators" making our lives a living hell at times. This is not just financially but emotionally. I feel blessed that those ogres are retired or eliminated due to budget cuts (yeah!) but I can't forget how awful it was for us at our own expense. I have been to other IEPs with people and seen really awful people who are paid to do a job that they are not doing. It just makes me nuts. RoxannaThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmond Burke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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