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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This entire situation makes me so angry, for more than just the obvious reasons. I was born with a physical disability and as a child my parents had to fight the public school system not to warehouse me and allow me in a general population setting. Eventually they put me in a private school at a great financial expense.

When I read posts on this thread, especially from educators, who have a situation where a child is dangerous to the classroom, who are not supported by administration getting help or having the child removed because the child must remain in general population at all costs, I am dumbfounded.  Public school systems are STILL forcing children (like me) into segregated settings, especially those with physical and intellectual disabilities that are apparent to the untrained eye (such as down syndrome). Why are mental disabilities that are violent given a pass here?

There is a great documentary that came out last year (I think you can stream it on amazon) re parents in New York trying to get their disabled children in public school, it's not long and its very well done, called Forget Me Not. SPOILER: in the end, the main child's parents and their advocate (who they had to hire because the public school system refused to allow him to start a regular kindergarten), were on a zoom meeting/hearing with the school administrator who was hearing their appeal. The admin asks to take a break but forgets to mute her mic. You can hear her call/talk to someone else who is not on the zoom and say that the parents are still pushing for their child to be in the regular classroom, how annoyed she is with them, that she doesn't care what they have to say, no matter what she will tell them their request will be denied and he won't be allowed.  This, over a 5 year old boy with Down Syndrome, who is not violent, who has appropriate K ready skills, who seems like any other average 5 year old.

Yet here this 6 yr old who threw chairs, tried to strangle someone, somehow got a gun, unlocked, loaded and fired it, stays in the classroom at all cost. What is happening.

Trailer for the documentary, which I highly recommend.

https://youtu.be/kquAryptRsI[/quote]

Thank you for this highly personal, beautifully expressed post.[/quote]

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