To: mlmr
Under IDEA, enacted first in the mid 70's, all students are entitled to be educated in the least restricted environment possible AND they are entitled to go to their neighborhood school, unless the disability is so severe that it causes harm to the student or to others. They have this right until they turn 22. This is the law.
Children cannot be placed in a warehouse or forced to stay at home.
To: SoftballMominVA
I understand the Act. I think it is wrong. I cannot think of one reason that low functioning children should not be in day care or at home. Mind you I am not saying that these children do not need care. But school is the wrong format for this care.
The act appears in some lights to be an employment program for some. An entire subgroup has come into existence PCAs. A daycare is more cost effective.
46 posted on
06/17/2004 6:28:40 PM PDT by
mlmr
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To: SoftballMominVA
...unless the disability is so severe that it causes harm to the student or to others.Is that merely physical harm or does impeding the learning process of others constitute harm?
48 posted on
06/17/2004 6:29:38 PM PDT by
raybbr
(My 1.4 cents - It used to be 2 cents, but after taxes - you get the idea.)
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