[Dawnsblood]

I hated school as a child but no one ever told me I was disabled.

[org.whodat]

A little of the old belt would have cured this problem.

[eleni121]

This must be some kind of sick twisted joke right???!!! Anyone checked Snopes?

[Chode]

and when school refusal, becomes WORK refusal... then what???

[taxesareforever]

Goes to show everyone can become a victim. To top it off, government sanctions it. Of course, it is not their money that pays for litigation it is the taxpayer who must pony up for this BS.

[meyer]

That’s crazy - what needs to happen is that Rebecca simply gets “incomplete” grades and either bones up and goes to class, gets a GED, or drops out and suffers the consequences of her own actions. This isn’t something for which the taxpayer should be paying.

[dbwz]

Scott Engler, special education director for the Palmerton district, said school officials had little say over how the money in Rebecca Maykish's fund was spent.

"The expenditures were paid under the terms of an order that gave virtually total discretion to the parent to determine what was educationally necessary," he said.

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Palmerton School Board President Carl Bieling Jr. said he and the board approved the payments because district administrators told them they were permitted under the terms of the compensatory education fund. He added that the expenses were first approved by former members of the board.

But he said he was bothered that Rebecca and her mother were receiving so much money.

Now they know how the average taxpayer feels about pouring money into the black hole that is government.

But what a disaster. This girl can't complete a full year of school because of her phobia, which has apparently gone untreated - I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned treatment, only diagnosis. But even with the awards from the school district, she hasn't managed to even learn the basics, because her mother has spent the money sending her off to self-esteem-boosting exercises that have yielded nothing. And without those basics, how on earth is she going to read and fill out a job application?

That's what welfare is for, I suppose.

[ApplegateRanch]

...and when I tried to talk sense to co-workers about the ADA before it was passed, they pooh-poohed my arguments.

I HATE always being right about such things! Couldn't Congress & the courts prove me wrong, by being sensible, just once?

[metmom]

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[Vision]

More proof that property taxes are way too high.

[linn37]

Good work if you can’t get it.