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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White men most certainly can sue if they're discriminated against on the basis of their race or sex.[/quote]ut

People can sue for anything...  But anti discrimination laws don't apply to them.[/quote]

Yes they do.  A white man at a majority minority company or with a minority boss can sue for racial discrimination.  A white man with a female boss can sue for sex discrimination.  Most white men over 40 sue for age discrimination.  But these laws apply across the board.  IDEA does not and should not.[/quote]

WTF.

Do you think IDEA was created by DCPS?  What is wrong with folk, really!!!!
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The point I was making was that anti-discrimination laws apply to everyone  - you can be discriminated against based on gender whether you are male or female, based on race whether you are black or white, based on national origin no matter what country you come from, including America, etc.  Everyone has a gender, a race, a national origin, a religion (even if it is atheism).  Everyone has the right to sue under these laws, and even white men have succeeded in rare cases.  Their cases cannot be dismissed just because they are white or male.

Age discrimination is more like IDEA - no one under 40 has the right to sue.
   
IDEA applies to a particular class of children - those who are disabled, and what constitutes a disability is specifically enumerated - a pp has given the list.  Gifted is not a category.

They are both federal laws.  But legally, there is a gigantic difference between a neutrally worded law or statute that applies "across the board" and a law or statute that specifically lists who is covered (and anyone else by definition is not).  That is why legally IDEA is not the appropriate law for OP to focus on, because OP's child has no standing to sue.

Furthermore, politically, as many others have pointed out, given the purpose of IDEA, trying to define a gifted child as disabled per se is offensive to many parents of disabled children because of the reasons the law was enacted and the types of children the law is designed to protect, and thus not a good strategy.

None of that has anything to do with DCPS.  I would add though that DCPS has so many problems meeting the needs of children with and without disabilities that I think the entire argument would be better made in a jurisdiction that is not scoring last on the NAEP in the entire country (Mississippi is next to last).[/quote]

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