I have spent many Sunday mornings with OPC's. I was an associate pastor, and music/worship leader for years. But, you are trying to make this about me, not my question.
One of faves was an 8yo girl with CP. She was totally spastic, but totally aware of her world. We shared God's blessings. I have been there, done that!
I am not posing hypothetical questions. I am trying to see how people justify the reliance on the state. Most of those families with "special needs", require much more than their share. Not only require it, but DEMAND it as a right. Sorry, I am not in that school.
What do you do with your kids, when the gum't goes bust? If you think we can keep going down this road, you should take off your blinders...
Speaking of which... There was a man that sat by a pool, waiting for it to "stir". Rumor said that there was healing in the water there. He was there a long time, waiting...
Sorry, but no I did mean you and your church. My experience with churches is most really don’t do much to help parents who have kids with speical needs. Tho they do teach that life is precious, all life, they tend to come up very short in assisting parents with those children. (and assistance is not just needed for church hrs, many parents could use some time to just go out for a couple hrs together).
I have read many times here how non goverment entities should help. But experience from many of us parents is that many chuches fall very short of helping. We found a church that will actually except that our daughter may not understand what communane(can’t spell sorry) is about but the pastor was willing to sit and talk to her about Jesus’s love and how she is one of his children and was welcome at His table. To me that is much more excepting then the prior church where they seemed to think that she was to understand. God knows her limitations and like myself excepts them. Do you or your church do that? I know of Catholic families who’ve been shocked to find that their child with Down Syndrome is not execpted into the Catholic schools that thier siblings attend. But the Church insists that the children are all God’s children and their life is precious....this is helping parents with ‘different’ kids? I could go on but you get the drift.
Should the state be the only option. NO. And keeping these kids at home and assisting their families actually saves the taxpayers money, because 24 hr care that would be given in an institution (and I believe a mom I know on another site said the state she in still has instititions and can’t get rid of them for group home settings because of unions).
I will keep my child in school for another 3 yrs at least. This means the state will be off the hook for finding her housing with support for at least that long. If not longer, because I’ve heard many horror stories and really don’t know if I want to subject her to uncaring staff.
Anyway, I do hope that something I’ve said will help you and you church assist those families with special needs, not just during the church time, but maybe if you know they have an anniverary or something coming up offer to help out so they can have a short date, just the two of them.
That said this teacher went way over board.