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To: SauronOfMordor
If we took the extra money that currently goes to special-ed, and used more of it to ensure that poor-but-gifted students developed to their full potential, the US would be more prosperous. And by reversing the "mainstreaming" of disruptive special-ed kids into classrooms where the other kids actually would like to learn, we can stop holding back the majority as well.

Note that these policies are the result of court cases, and teachers, administrators, and school systems pretty well have their hands tied on how to deal with special ed. students.

95 posted on 02/16/2004 3:11:48 PM PST by Amelia (I have trouble taking some people seriously.)
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To: Amelia
Note that these policies are the result of court cases, and teachers, administrators, and school systems pretty well have their hands tied on how to deal with special ed. students.

But not the legislators. There is nothing in the Constitution about a right to special ed.

They're going to have to figure something out. If the school systems fail to satisfy the middle-class parents who pay for it all, and they take their kids out, there's eventually going to come a call to abolish the public school system, root and branch

98 posted on 02/16/2004 3:22:02 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (No anchovies!)
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