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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I, too, hate the "special needs child" excuse.  Like that trumps everything.  And the language itself.  The child isn't "special needs."  The child [u]has[/u] special needs.  Someone wanted to shut down the thread because she or he has a child with special needs.  Don't put everyone into the same box.  We had a good experience.  It wasn't perfect but no one, as far as I know, had a perfect experience.  [b]What we did have were a principal and teachers who worked hard for us to give the best experience for our child that we could given the circumstances.[/b]  There is no way we would have supported our child going into school bevore being vaccinated and before teachers were vaccinated.  Our principal and teachers understood that and worked with us.  I give them a huge amount of credit for that and for working as hard for us as they did.  Of course, I also think it helped that we weren't a-holes with them, we didn't treat them like the enemy, and we treated them with the respect and dignity that all people deserve, most especially the people entrusted with teaching our child.  In return, they went above and beyond the call of duty, and delivered far more than any reasonable expectation we might have had.[/quote]

This is a +1 for us, too.[/quote]

These comments attacking special needs parents whose children have suffered because of ACPS’s failures are shameful.  Of the things I hate about ACPS, I hate parents likes these who attack parents whose children who have suffered just because they have been lucky enough to avoid ACPS’s pitfalls.

We are not engaged in victimization.  We are trying to save our children from harm.[/quote]

The special needs parent is the one who threw the first punch, babe.  Go back and read the posts.  You don't get to swing first and then cry foul when someone swings back.[/quote]

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