I should have pinged you to my post 55 re schools, election fraud/dems, and big pharma in a symbiotic triad.
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Thank you for sharing with me.
I teach in a rural attendance zone. Currently, our elementary, middle, and high schools serve less than 20 EL students. So far this year, I have none.
I find it disconcerting:
- students who receive free/reduced breakfast/lunch dispose of their entire meals in the trashcan! Yet, as they go through the line they have money to purchase chips, ice cream, fruit roll-ups, etc., but come to school with no basic supplies such as pencils and paper.
AND, “Policy taken from the ALSDE EL Guidebook”:
- “All language-minority students must be allowed to attend school, regardless of their ability to produce a birth certificate, social security number, or immigration documentation.”
- “If parents do not have student immunization records available, the dates of immunization may be obtained by calling the previous school the student attended.”
THIS IS a double-standard when citizen students are REQUIRED to produce the above documents for school attendance but non-citizen students are given a free-pass.
Although autism is the most recent rampant diagnosis, there remains attention-deficit disorder diagnoses where students are, IMHO, overly medicated when what they really need is time to run around and PLAY.
Bottom line for me is too much government intrusion on both the state and federal levels. Follow the money! And not just the big pharma money as it is also the testing/assessment monies.
Wondering WHY there is autism...
Over the course of my tenure as a teacher, I have taught children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome, “meth babies,” and students identified with every special education label.
I should have read more of the posts prior to replying! What happens when one lags behind...
Thank you to everyone for their comments related to autism!!