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Look for an explosion in the number if kids defined as “special needs”.
Massachusetts has been doing this for special needs children for many years.
The local school system pays for the private school education,including transportation.
It’s a boondoggle.
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/johnny
I'd say that's a significant portion of many inner city schools. Bring the high achievers down to their level. China is so going to own us.
Sounds like you’d be opening a can of worms. Just give everyone a school choice voucher if they want one.
With proper education and teachers a “special needs” child would probably not be “special needs” anymore. Of course mental disabilities is different.
But how many boys are put in “special needs” classes and doped up simply for being high energy boys. Whoever heard of ADHD 30 years ago?
I had a low income renters in one of my houses about ten years ago. Their son was considered “special needs” and doctors put him on all the drugs used to keep boys mushy headed zombies and put him in the elementary school’s special ed classes. The kid was miserable and acted out so all that happened was they upped the doses of psychotropic drugs.
The Dad finally saw what was happening to their kid and took him out of public education and scraped up enough money to send him to a private Christian school. the effects were immediate. He was off drugs, well behaved, and interested in school. The teachers at this school actually engaged him in his studies and treated him like a proper boy needs to be treated. Rigorous discipline, rigorous expectations, rigorous reward, and lots of physical play time.
Public schools don’t want the competition. It’s easier to keep “special needs” kids doped up with an army of otherwise unemployable college grads busy tending to them like zookeepers. And most parents are lazy. They send their kids to school and completely ignore what’s happening in the kids school life. The government doesn’t want to lose a second of precious indoctrination time so of course they oppose private schools.
I have a better idea.
Let’s ban taxpayer support for ANY school. It’s long past time to get government out of the business of education.
We have this in Ohio, and we use it with our son who is high functioning ASD. He would have gone to this private school anyway, but now the funds the state would use for the extras the private school can get. His aides, PT, OT, ST, etc. are now covered.
We have discovered so much through this.
1. Public ed (in which I teach) does not complete special ed properly. It’s a money making scam for schools.
2. Our public school would get $22,500 to “educate” our son. He’s getting the same education and services privately for 1/3 the cost.
This system is saving the state a lot of money.