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liberal_at_heart

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13. I'm sorry you are having to go to such extremes

Thu Nov 15, 2012, 01:26 AM

Nov 2012

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I am glad to hear you have been successful. I hope you are able to get the school to cooperate with your daughter's IEP. I probably should have sued, but they now tell me that the high school level has much more flexibility than the middle school level? I would like to know why there is so much flexibility at the high school level and no flexibility at the middle school level. This doesn't sound right and it certainly didn't work for my son. It should be changed.

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child with Fragile X takes 45 minute bus ride to school [View all] liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 OP

It is outrageous. LaydeeBug Nov 2012 #1

oh, wow liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #9

Right; somehow school administrators seem to have lost their ability to REASON. elleng Nov 2012 #2

"administrators", exactly liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #4

yeah, they're all irrational monsters. their inability to respond to every parents' concerns can't HiPointDem Nov 2012 #32

No thanks for suggesting I said they are all 'irrational monsters;' elleng Nov 2012 #38

"somehow school administrators seem to have lost their ability to REASON." where's the qualifier? HiPointDem Nov 2012 #41

In our area, districts have cut to the bone and a request like this may be sluffed off simply Brickbat Nov 2012 #3

I live in an affluent area with lots of local taxes liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #5

well, kent has taken budget cuts in 2010-11 and 2011-12. 110 positions in 2011-12. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #28

My school district had 11 towns in it and one high school. bluedigger Nov 2012 #18

Most school systems offer no systems for the redress of grievances Major Nikon Nov 2012 #6

baloney. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #8

it's not baloney in my school district liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #11

Link? Kent ain't that big; 45 minutes would get you into seattle. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #7

It was a story on King 5 news liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #10

I KNEW it was "Get Jesse!" Suich Nov 2012 #15

here's a map of the district. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #16

it may be that that one particular school has a program liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #22

It may be, as I acknowleged. But it's still only 30 minutes from one end of the district to the HiPointDem Nov 2012 #26

This is why I have had to spend ten's of thousands on an Educational Lawyer over the past 5 years Throckmorton Nov 2012 #12

I'm sorry you are having to go to such extremes liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #13

Do the parents have a car? LeftyMom Nov 2012 #14

It is not the same for children with special needs liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #17

Well somebody's watching him until they put him on the bus. LeftyMom Nov 2012 #19

That's not the point liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #20

they were already busing him to school; the parents didn't like the new route. they made a fuss HiPointDem Nov 2012 #24

it's a 4 year old. would you put your 4 year old special needs kid on a bus? and if the new route HiPointDem Nov 2012 #21

My autistic son rode the school bus to school when he was four liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #23

well, since the new route only takes 10 minutes, it's pretty close, i presume. if the bus stop is HiPointDem Nov 2012 #25

wow sounds like a lot of people are happy with the status quo liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #27

I think the story doesn't make sense. And when it doesn't make sense, there's something they're HiPointDem Nov 2012 #29

Then enroll your child in a charter school and pay for it with your own money argiel1234 Nov 2012 #36

This is yet another example of why we need to fund our public schools properly. SheilaT Nov 2012 #30

thank you liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #31

where do you see the "democratic community" rejecting you? education *is* a hot issue now. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #33

I cannot know what the original poster was actually thinking. SheilaT Nov 2012 #37

How about looking at 3+ years of funding cuts, the loss of over 100 positions, sports, arts and HiPointDem Nov 2012 #46

The obvious answer is to destroy the public school system argiel1234 Nov 2012 #34

Yes, it's perfectly clear, that's the only answer to such terrible neglect. A lot of people in Kent HiPointDem Nov 2012 #35

+10000 argiel1234 Nov 2012 #40

Please tell me the details of your special needs child and please tell me Luminous Animal Nov 2012 #39

I never said I think private school would address my child's needs liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #47

you people amaze me liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #42

not allowed? were your posts hidden or something? HiPointDem Nov 2012 #43

not allowed as in being attacked for saying anything bad about our current system liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #44

You seem to mistake discussion, criticism and other people having an opinion different from yours HiPointDem Nov 2012 #45

The bus driver MrYikes Nov 2012 #48

if funding will solve the problem then let's make that a priority liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #49

Are the buses public or private, I wonder. My Good Babushka Nov 2012 #50

In Atlanta, they put a school bus stop in front of a strip club. Iris Nov 2012 #51