An ex-pat snowflake complains that they had to move back to the US, away from living the expat life ($$$$) while valuing multi-culti, diversity, and strange foods. All because they produced a child that couldn't tolerate their choices and life was no longer rainbow skittles and unicorns. Long but worth the read to get to the responses and comments.
Good. Maybe it will help them. I guess that’s what the “progressives” object to.
I had a child that I homeschooled that had some special needs issues. I was trapped using the not very good special therapist in our district instead of the really good one in the next district. I had the means to get him the quality he deserved. Not the union drone the other kids were stuck with.
I taught a vocational electronics course for 16+ years. When No Child Left Behind started every student could take any class they wanted. Sounds good so far right?
I had two students with cerebal palsy enroll in a class. They each could not communicate, could not control their muscle spasms and had to have a special ed attendant with them 100% of the time. The spec ed attendant did their classwork, took their tests and did the and soldering/assembly. The student got the grade??? Also that took 4 seats away from from someone else.
What good did that do anybody? The spec ed students had no chance of getting hired, the kids that missed the chance who knows??? One of the Spec Ed assistants eventually got a job as an electrical assembler/inspector but she was trained in the military before she became a spec ed assistant. Her student had a 4.0.
My oldest daughter was a ‘special needs’ child, and I had the right to place her in a ‘special needs school’ for her to learn the basics of reading, spelling, communicating, and functioning...she later went into public school and graduated with her younger brother in a regular High School in 1984...
I didn’t have to worry about anyone telling me what to do or when or how...and if they would have, I would have went to every television station and radio station and newspaper investigative reporter and brought them down in shame!!!
There is no such right. It cannot be a right to compel anyone else to make sacrifices in order to supply what one is claiming as a right.
The attempt to define education as a right is having the predictable result that the impracticality of supplying such a right is revealed. I'm sure the number of "special needs" children will continue to grow until, at the rate of 5,000 dollars per month, there will be no resources remaining to educate ANYONE.
In many areas of the country I believe that we have already passed that point. What passes for "education" in some communities is simply not what it purports to be.
This is my life - bookmarking for later read.
Translation:
"We incredibly cool global citizens don't want to make any personal sacrifices of our very cool awesomeness for our child's unique needs. America is hateful to us, who are special, and deserve better."
Its a flat lie that any American school would reject her son
Pubic schools are MANDATED to educate every child, and mainstreaming in preferred, often with a 504 plan of accommodations or a full IEP and a stable of TAXPYER paid special services: speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychological counseling
But if that can't work, then the school district has to pay for his education in an alternative setting- usually a VERY expensive therapeutic school- paid for AT SCHOOL DISTRICT TAPAYER EXPENSE
How do I know this?
Been through all of it with an ADHD autism spectrum kid
In fact, it was a private school that rejected him for pre-K
which we then found at a church school, but once in public school we got every courtesy, every accommodation mandated by law, full hearings with all administrators, teachers, therapists
and - once we paid for a full private neuropsych eval that pinpointed the areas of his deficiencies and delays (superior to the exam the school would have provided) - our son was educated in a regular classroom with a full IEP and supporting service by PT, OT and speech therapy
The program for his needs was not so good in middle school which is battleground of migrants and ghetto kids, so I have home-schooled him since 7th grade and he is just about to finish his HS diploma!
The doctor told us it was a shame we didn't live in Baltimore because that city sends all their special needs kids like our son to a very expensive PRIVATE SCHOOL at taxpayer expense (but we just couldn't swallow the $30K a year tuition)
Snowflakes assumptions and rants about how Betsy Devos is somehow going to deprive her kid of an educations is more liberal lunacy. Sheer lunacy and misinformation
And since her global family can live where they chose, they might want to live in Baltimore which will pay for her son's private school and see if obamacare’s snowflake plan for jobless globe trotters pays for his services at Kennedy Krieger
A vote for DeVos is a vote for resegregation
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/05/opinions/devos-racism-public-school-opinion-wong/index.html