Under IDEA, signed in 1976 and reauthorized by every president since, every child has a right to a free and appropriate education. Appropriate for her is going to look much different than a child not disabled.
Besides, what you you do with her? Put her in the boiler room like schools used to do and pretend they don't exist?
Home or daycare. Public school isn’t the place. I don’t care what the government rule is, we’ve had bad law before. I’m not against “mainstreaming” in most cases where the disabled kid can learn, but according to the article it is clear she’s not capable of learning. Is common sense dead in your world?
Women have abortions in this country because they have a legal right to one too. We have a lot of preposterous rights in this country, and the right of those incapable of an education to an education is but one of them. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that we educate our youth so they can go on to lead productive adult lives. There is no sound reason to place this girl in school.
Besides, what you you do with her? Put her in the boiler room like schools used to do and pretend they don't exist?
She should be either in the care of the parents or a care facility of their choosing. Not in school.
How much education is she getting while she cannot talk and cannot walk and is awaiting her own death? Do you think that listening to a song about prepositions is going to be a meaningful thing for her?
Keep her home. Play with her. Read nursery rhymes, play music....
I don’t think this about the right to a free educaton. If she is so bad off can she learn is the only question in my mind. If she can’t learn and can’t mentally participate with her classmates, I don’t think the school should merely provide baby-sitting service for the family.