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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, not prejudiced, just realistic. You said yourself some DCPS are better than some Catholics. That is exactly what I said up thread. So we agree.

I would add that I would support increased vouchers for parochial/religious schools if those schools used some of the funding to increase their supports for kids with special needs. Very few of these schools have any such supports at the moment.[/quote]

Yes, there's not super support for special needs because of no funding from DCPS.  DCPS used to allow you to bring your kid to a neighborhood public school for services, and then they just abruptly pulled the program and have been very slow to start any kind of "equitable" program, just to screw those kids in parochials.  Special needs is an area where the government has to step in and provide adequate funding, which now it's not.  DCPS never did like special needs kids; there's a history of lawsuits to prove it.[/quote]

There is not super support for these kids even if their parents are paying full tuition. If the parochial schools accept the voucher money, they should provide the same services that that money would used for in a traditional public school to support that student. Same for charters and voucher schools. Right now, they take the funding they can get and kick it (and sometimes the kids) back to traditional DCPS. So a voucher system that required every school to provide support as part of their own programming would be a big improvement. [/quote]

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