Students With Disabilities
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Printed Date: May 17 2024 at 1:33pm
Topic: Students With Disabilities
Posted By: VietVet
Subject: Students With Disabilities
Date Posted: Jul 21 2008 at 2:06pm
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Journal- July 21- Parents say that they want a choice whether to send their child to a "regular" school classroom or send their child to a special classroom to accomodate the child's disability and they want us taxpayers to pay for it with a voucher. I disagree with this. If the parents of a disabled child don't want to accept the educational program that is presented to them from the public, they should be required to pay for the option of education outside the normal realm out of their own pocket. The parochial school parents pay the school taxes and opt to pay the extra tuition to Fenwick. If they choose to pay their property taxes to Middletown and pay the additional amount to Fenwick, that's their perogative.Not a dime of taxpayer money should be spent to allow parents another alternative when one is offered to them through the public system. Basically, they want to be re-imbursed by the taxpayers for the property taxes they pay to support the schools, in the form of a voucher.
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Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Jul 21 2008 at 3:52pm
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I particularly liked this part of the story. Does anyone think that the $100,000.00 spent on legal fees could have been put to a better use, like for the education of their disabled child.
"The Pierce family of Mason spent more than $100,000 going through due process and then later in federal court. The testimony of a neuropsychologist and world-renown experts in the field of these types of learning disorders could not sway the courts to overrule the decision, Gregory Pierce said. In order to ensure their daughter would learn to read and function in school, the Pierces used their own money to send her to a specialized program and then a private school. With three other children, however, they said the financial situation became too much of a burden."
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