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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Bad parents annoy me. [/quote]

I have 1 child who is a model student, incredibly well-behaved, never an ounce of trouble at school and rarely so at home.  I have another child who has developmental delays and other problems that are diagnosed, medicated, and well-addressed at home, in private therapy, and at school, thanks to tens of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of work on DC's, the school's, our parts.  Unfortunately, despite this hard work, school is hard for DC and there are sometimes behaviors that distract from the learning of the other children.  We would love DC to be in a program that better dealt with these needs and did not take away from the education of the "normal" children, but they don't exist publicly in our school district, or privately in a price range a normal middle class family could afford ($30K/year would be a bargain; they are more like $50-75K/year).  So I have some questions for you.

Am I a good mother because of child #1 or a bad mother because of child #2? Should child #2 just stay home and be uneducated?  Maybe put in an institution?  Where is your dividing line?  Should a kid on a breathing apparatus not be allowed at school with the "normal" kids because it would make noise and distract the kids?  What about all those pesky kids with severe nut allergies who prevent my kids from being able to bring peanut butter sandwiches to school.  Should they just have to stay home?  Most importantly, are you lobbying to have school systems adequately address the needs of kids who are no longer institutionalized and are, rather, actually required to attend school with "normal" kids, despite any disruptive behavior?  Should the families of those children live on the street to pay for special schools, go on welfare and food stamps, kill the children as soon as they get a diagnosis?

I am saying nothing in defense of the woman in the article because I don't know the whole story.  It sounds to me like the child had some emotional turmoil and, being young, acted on it inappropriately.  As the mother, I would have been running to a therapist to help him work out these behaviors, given that, according to the article, they came on suddenly at a time of great change in his life.

I'm glad that the rest of you are perfect parents.  I try hard, but am smart enough to know that it's really difficult, even without a kid with special needs.  You'll be happy to know that my DC with problems knows well how you and your kids feel about the situation and is occasionally suicidal as a result.  I'm sure it is difficult for outsiders to know which kids were receiving such intensive interventions as we and many other such families are doing and which have parents who were unable or unwilling to face the situation.  In the meantime, I do believe there is a saying somewhere about glass houses that I think we should all keep in mind.  [/quote]

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