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[quote=Anonymous]First of all, I think it's a major stretch to try and suggest that special needs kids were "discriminated against" because there are several other families with special needs kids who would be more than happy to get in front of investigators, or appear in court to testify under oath that their kids were not discriminated against.

At worst, the only thing they might be considered guilty of is not fully implementing every last iota specified in IEPs - and it sounds like that may be more a function of problems with the paperwork.  But frankly, even that's not something we will lose sleep over, given the turmoil of their first year of operation, I think it will get better in the next year and years to come.

But at the end of the day, sadly I don't think you could find a single school in the entire District of Columbia that does a good job of accommodating every special need, to include DCPS.  And consider that many times DCPS passes the buck altogether, instead farming special needs kids out to specialty schools outside of the District, often at a cost of $50,000 or more per student (and charters are provided nowhere near those kinds of resources for special needs)[/quote]

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