Boy where do I start with this? Just because you had to "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" and this was done how many years ago, doesn't mean there aren't procedures in place NOW to help those children who need it. Obviously your main objection is that since you had to do it on your own, everyone else should have to do it that way and god forbid some tax money be used to help them.
Your lack of compassion is extremely distressing and the implications made in your post that some children don't deserve that "equal opportunity" you cite is, in a word, disgusting.
As I stated in my private reply to this oh so compassionate person, I have never seen a person so lacking in common decency. No one was whining on this thread. Perhaps some of us just want the best for our children, too. You talk about tax dollars- well let's just throw them all overboard, the ADHD kids, the dyslexics, the kids with autism. Heck, the mentally retarded might as well go overboard, too. They take extra tax money,after all. Anybody recognize this? And cut the crap calling my child a problem. Additionally, I don't take offense at this type of "personal responsibility doctrine" as you put it. There's no personal responsibility in the problems my child is having in school. And don't tell me you're not denigrating my child, because that's exactly what you are doing. Finally, there was no "my child is disabled whine". I was just pointing out that the extreme rhetoric coming from this thread was not helpful, including, the short-bus comments. I don't know that I have ever seen such an uncaring SOB as you in FR.
Yeah, just drug the little bugger.
Very nice reply.