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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't you mosey on over to the special needs board and tell all those moms and dads that you resent spending on their kids?  [/quote]

The ones with severe cognitive decencies?  Yeah, I'd rather my money not be spent on them in the regular public school capacity.  It'd be better spent to create a specific school with therapies to assist them.

I'm not talking the ELL/ESL kids or the autistic kids or even the severe behavior issue kids.  We have several kids at our ES who are only semi-cognitive with severe CP.  They would benefit more from being in a therapy based program vs. just being in gen pop at a public school, which would free up more public school resources.  But, those types of private programs cost money, which many families of those kids can't shell out because their kid's medical expenses are already so high, so they are just enrolled in public school.      [/quote]

Federal law requires that the child be placed in the least restrictive environment, so schools cannot just warehouse special ed kids, which is what happened before that law.  The idea is to prepare the kids for the real world where they are not separated.[/quote]

And what about the other kids in the class?  So the one child with disabilities learns more if he's in that class, but he is so disruptive and difficult that no one else can learn and the teacher can't teach.  I've been in classes where one "disabled" kid terrorized an entire class, including the teacher, physically assaulting people (including the teacher!), and making the entire year horrible for everyone.  Why is that kid's right to be in the best environment trump everyone else's right to a safe, effective education?  I know that's not all special ed kids and not even the majority, but it only takes one of those kids to ruin a class.  The question, do kids without an IEP or identification as AAP have any rights to a decent education at all?  It seems fcps thinks not.[/quote]

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