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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't make it up. It's a fact that we have space in our elementary schools, and either we use it, or we're going to need to close a school. That's really disruptive too. Lots of other special needs preschoolers are educated in our elementary schools. Why are 40 odd preschoolers so special that it won't work for them too? It's not like they will never go to elementary school. They just will go a year earlier than they would have. What's the big deal? No one has explained to me why APS can't educate 40 odd preschool kids in the elementary schools when it literally already does this. Or do you not want your kid to be with the VPI kids? [/quote]

You made it up. These kids are PreK— they will still go to the elementary schools you just said would close if a disabled child gets a better environment for an additional year. It’s truly sick how much you want to take things from these kids.[/quote]

What makes this environment “better”? There is a peer model program at my neighborhood elementary school. But the peers are income-qualified. Is that it? Say it.[/quote]

What makes it better is exactly the reason the parents selected it in the first place over their neighborhood school: they think it’s a better environment for their kid. Exactly like traditional, exactly like immersion, exactly like expeditionary. If you think only the parents of Gen Ed kids deserve any choice, say so.[/quote]

But they have the same peer model program elsewhere at neighborhood schools, currently serving other people’s children. The neighborhood elementary schools do not offer the immersion, expeditionary, etc. programs. So you’re comparing apples and wombats.[/quote]

And not even neighborhood school offers peer model. So what do you want to do with the kids whose schools don’t offer it? Or who are slated for Cardinal? Just too bad so sad at least only the disabled preschoolers get screwed and no one you really care about?[/quote]

I don't get your point. All the kids in IS go to one building now, no matter how far it is from their homes. But now your problem is that they may go to a different school than the one in their neighborhood for preschool? [/quote]

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