Re: Re: Need Options and Advice

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Your son is blessed to have such a good mom looking out for him. Hope

everything works out great for you guys.

Mairlyn

Re: Need Options and Advice

> Thanks, Marilyn and Haven for your responses. I appreciate it.

>

> IDK yet what we'll choose, but I think if I were forced to decide today

> what to do, we'll try to stick with homeschooling him. (Which means my DH

> will be doing the bulk of the homeschooling.) It HAS served us well and

> the ability to custom " fit " a plan/curriculum to my kid: wow. I know no

> school could ever do something like that, through no fault of their own,

> but it's just not designed for that. This " solution " has its own set of

> issues, of course, but we'll hopefully be able to cope with those.

>

> The special schools (private ones) that cater to ASD kids, well, unless

> some rich uncle I know nothing about happens to KTB and leave it all to

> me, there's no feasible way for those financially. Just no stinkin' way.

>

> As far as public schools go, I have read enough of these boards to be

> really freaked out by some of the stories I've read about schools and

> ARDs, and IEPs, and FAPEs, etc. It honestly overwhelms me! I so wish

> there were an EASY solution. *sigh* C'est la vie.

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Your son is blessed to have such wonderful parents!  I do blame the public schools.  I think they should have to live up to NCLB and IDEA, and they could if many of them weren't funneling special ed money in other areas.  They can do this if it is of educational benefit to special ed kids, but many funnel the money and say they benefit, but they do not benefit, and there is no good policing of it.  In 2006, our coop got more than $750,000 in special ed funds to service around 350 children.  There are private schools that would kill to have that much money to service that many kids.  They do a better job with much less money.  Who decided how that money got spent?  Two superintendents who do not have a special needs child and never met or sat down with any of the children the money was supposed to benefit.  They decided it without any input fro the parents, and there was no representation on either school board for this population.  This is the way it is in most rural school districts.  Two " good ole boys and all that money at their fingertips.  Sounds fishy to me....

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We must be in the same district. Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:16:58 -0500To: <Texas-Autism-Advocacy >Subject: Re: Re: Need Options and Advice Your son is blessed to have such wonderful parents!  I do blame the public schools.  I think they should have to live up to NCLB and IDEA, and they could if many of them weren't funneling special ed money in other areas.  They can do this if it is of educational benefit to special ed kids, but many funnel the money and say they benefit, but they do not benefit, and there is no good policing of it.  In 2006, our coop got more than $750,000 in special ed funds to service around 350 children.  There are private schools that would kill to have that much money to service that many kids.  They do a better job with much less money.  Who decided how that money got spent?  Two superintendents who do not have a special needs child and never met or sat down with any of the children the money was supposed to benefit.  They decided it without any input fro the parents, and there was no representation on either school board for this population.  This is the way it is in most rural school districts.  Two " good ole boys and all that money at their fingertips.  Sounds fishy to me....