- Our story at the DMN BeloBlog

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- and others, thanks so much for what you have posted on the Belo

Blog. Don't know if any of you have looked at it recently. I was able to

post and give more background on our reason for filing DP. And there have

been several very good comments since then. You can't change everyone's

mind - you can hope to educate them though. And everyone that has not

joined the support group that I have set up (see link below) I hope that you

join since I am updating everyone there and posting documents from our DP

hearing. Thanks for everyone's kind words of support. If I have not

returned you email, I will soon. I've been getting some of the most

wonderful emails and phone calls from across the entire US. Looks like we

can make a difference and with this we can hopefully join forces to affect

some change.

Amy

Fighting the fight for all our children's rights...

Amy A. Sosa

amy.sosa@...

Coppell, Texas

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Fax -

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<http://profiles.yahoo.com/mom2boysplano> mom2boysplano

Mon Dec 3, 2007 7:08 pm (PST)

Good point. Everyone's experiences shape their point of view. The

DMN writer who made that comment seems that he allows his views to

be shaped by his wife. His bio reads:

" Married to Garland ISD educational diagnostician _______. "

Should we be surprised her husband would broadcast such a

perspective?

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> Don't waste your time reading it......

>

> Just more blogs from people who think they have been there and

know that - but they haven't, and they don't.....

>

> I wonder if they would put veteran's medical care in the same

category of:

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> " If you want free, you get a chevy, not a cadillac " ....

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>

> Reading those bloggers words made me think of this quote that I

heard when I was a guest of Senator 's on the Senate Floor.

I had talked him into giving me 5 minutes to talk about autism - and

he gave me that 5 minutes while he was in the Senate voting on a

resolution to honor a war hero.

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> I forget what I talked about regarding autism, but I'll never

forget what the man being honored said:

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> " Freedom has a taste to those who have fought for it and died -

that the protected will never know.. "

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> So goes it with parents like us:

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> A person with a Disability/Autism has a sense of worth and honor

to those who love and care for them - that those not touched by it

could never comprehend......

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>

> So... we march on in our battlefield of adocating, educating,

challenging.....

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> And with God's grace one day - winning............

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>

> Sincerely,

> M. Guppy

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<http://profiles.yahoo.com/mom2boysplano> mom2boysplano

Mon Dec 3, 2007 7:16 pm (PST)

Oh, and since when did thousands of years in taxes equate to " free " ?

Cheap maybe, but free - no. AS the saying does go: " You get what you

pay for. " To me that's always the biggest irony - we pay for public

education for years, if we are unlucky or so motivated, we may be

forced to pay much more to ensure that our original contribution is

meaningful for our children via the special education remedy

process, while the same tax dollars are used against us to pay

attorneys to fight us to keep us from benefiting from that

contribution. Something wrong with this picture?