[gcparent]

Cruel. Unnecessary. If approved by district,ong island school district will pay for your kid to go to a school for autism. It cost the district 30k a year. You have to fight for it. My relative attends one and is doing really well. He is like rain man.

[dfwgator]

Mainstreaming may have been well-intentioned, but it’s not the solution. Most teachers aren’t trained to adequately handle autistic students.

[RummyChick]

You might appreciate Blind Autistic Kodi Lee who just won a million bucks because he can sing and play the piano

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3779838/posts

[cherry]

my grandson is on the autism spectrum and if he has a meltdown he can be very very hard to handle....now, since he really wasn't allowed back to his old school, he got a place in a very expensive school for his disorder....cost of $40000 a year and the parents hope to get most of it paid by insurance, etc....

the answer is that most regular people can not afford this so why are people surprised that the kids are stuck in regular class......

by the way, they are not little brats....if they knew a way to get out of these panic modes by themselves they would....