Guest guest Posted September 21, 2000 Report Share Posted September 21, 2000 Flagpole Mom is from south west PA, a small underpopulated part of the state. She has tried for a long time to get the SD to comply with federal law, but even with the feds siding with her, the SD opted to use tax-payor money to fight her rather than to comply. the requests were: a signing interpretor for her son who is non-verbal and a person qualified to give her son his asthma meds when needed. In complying at last, the SD will higher a full time sign/interpretor and an LPN will be stationed at the school to monitor his meds. Imagine what we go through for a whole lot more and the SD fought her on such minor grounds. Power to the POLE> Sara _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2000 Report Share Posted September 25, 2000 From another list regarding equality or fairness in regards to education: >Fair means: (excerpts from a dictionary) sufficient, but not ample * >adequate * impartial * unbiased * proper balance of conflicting needs, >rights or demands > >In our own definition, we believe fair means: > > in a classroom, everybody gets what they need in order to >learn; and, > in a home, everybody gets what they need to grow & develop. Cheryl in VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2000 Report Share Posted September 25, 2000 I have seen many a sped room in which there were children who " negatively impacted " my son's education but no one cared about that. The only concern seems to be the " negative impact " our kids have on typical kids. can have a child that constantly walks around the room making fire engine noises, but that is okay because he is a " retard. " Some think he deserves no better. IDEA costs money but then providing proper services and an education does cost money. I want my son to become a taxpayer, not a drain on the system. That's why I insist on a proper education. The flagpole mom didn't get any more than her child was entitled to under the law. If other parents were willing to advocate and lobby for a proper education for their children like parents with children with special needs do, then they would probably have a better system. They would also have a better system if they were willing to pay teachers anything close to what they're worth, but they'd rather pay for entertainment. We can't allow IDEA to be repealed just because other people are ignorant about it. Ignorance needs educating. Elaine Flagpole Mom > > Sandy > > It does matter where our children are educated and that does not have a > single answer. Our children deserve to be educated in an environment > conducive to education and one which will not negatively impact the > education of others. That really isn't the issue I'd raised. That > could be anything from full inclusion to a special school. Our kids are > not all the same. > > Today, we do not have universal medical care because as a nation we've > convinced ourselves that we cannot affor it. There have been many very > expensive solutions to educating the handicapped .. like flying them > several hundred miles to a residential school and bringing them home > every weekend. These have been few, but done in the search by affluent > school districts to do the best for their handicapped students. I am > seeing this approach being curtailed as is the relatively expensive sped > program that educated Jan. Many of these programs are being pulled 'in > district' where the resources and opportunities are very much more > limited. > > Public demonstrations to get IDEA (a pretty unknown law to the common > person) implemented at apparently large expense will not help our > cause. We live in a democracy .. or at least sort of one. It would not > be very hard to bring in a conservative government which repealed IDEA > and came up with a fixed fund for each student which could be spent on > public or pivate education. After all, that's equality! We'd be big > losers then. > > So it is compromise as we fight to get our kids educated as well as the > system will allow. > > Rick > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 26, 2000 Report Share Posted September 26, 2000 In a message dated 9/25/00 1:21:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, rdill@... writes: << There have been many very expensive solutions to educating the handicapped .. like flying them several hundred miles to a residential school and bringing them home every weekend. These have been few, but done in the search by affluent school districts to do the best for their handicapped students. >> Last year 60 minutes did a show on several school districts that did this. It was not by choice or in an effort to provide the " best " education that the school systems paid to send the kids away. It was an effort to continue segregated education, as they would not provide the specialized services the children needed in their home schools. No attempt at inclusion, which would have been MUCH cheaper and the kids would be living at home with their families. The show was using the cost of these students ( a pretty EXTREME example) as an example of how expensive it is to educate " those kids with disabilities, " with the school systems whining the entire time about the burden they had educating the kids. I believe one mom pointed out how ignorant the school officials were in not looking at any other possiblities, just shipping the kids out to the " mini-institutions. " Cheryl in VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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