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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two normal kids and I can not imagine what I would do if my kid have further challenges in life.

But having said that, I wouldn't be too happy to be paying $45k + tuition a year/kid to have my children be in a classroom where the teacher have to spend part of their day/time dealing with a handful of outliers.

Sounds cold but that's how I feel.  I want the kids with special needs to be included, I just don't want to pay for it![/quote]

It's perfectly reasonable to not want to pay handsomely for an education and then have your child's classroom experience disrupted by others.

My beef is with the presumption too many people have that certain learning challenges automatically translate into distractions and disruptions for others.  That's just wrong.  Many neurotypical kids are poorly behaved and disrupt the class.  Many, indeed most, kids with various challenges do not.

Admissions offices, and schools generally, should decide on the basis of what each particular child can bring to the school, not traffic in stereotyping.  [/quote]

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