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In reply to the discussion: child with Fragile X takes 45 minute bus ride to school [View all]liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Well I'm sorry. I have a special needs child and have struggled with this kind of inflexibility before and I don't think we should just have to accept it. We need to make our schools better. And it's not just the special needs kids that get the short end of the stick either. My daughter says in her school if you struggle you are just given up on. The focus is put on kids who do get it and whom they know they can send off to college. For kids who struggle and whom they don't know how to help they simply give up on. We need more funding and we need more flexibility. If we truly want all of our children to succeed we will have to change our school system. If we want our drop out rate to decrease. If we want to compete globally. Hell, if we just want well rounded, knowledgeable, productive members of society who can think for themselves and solve problems we have to do better. Where is MadFloridian? If she was the one posting this I bet the responses would be different.