Why oh WHY would ANYBODY send a special needs child to a government school collective?
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children like you can.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that goes DOUBLE for any government “education” program.
Arne Duncan had to send out a press release apologizing for the ABUSE of special needs children by government school employees, which had been shown by a DOE report to be EPIDEMIC - including abuse that resulted in death.
Anyone who sends a children to government school should be ASHAMED.
Here's the skinny...many parent[s] of special needs kids are personally ill equipped to deal with their needy kids. Public schools are by-and-large a free day-care situation for the parents. Few and far between are the parents *helicopter* as they should over their kids schooling.
The teachers and the aides get away with *murder* in these classrooms.... many do not follow the child's IEP [which is against the law] but they get away with it b/c no one is checking on them. No one. Frequently, things run amok, and parents are not informed until the horse is out of the barn, and damage has been done.
Not all autistic students are high functioning; costs are astronomical; as much as $200000 a year per student: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/education/13autism.html?pagewanted=all