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In reply to the discussion: Schools must provide sports for disabled, US says [View all]Butterbean
(1,014 posts)I would like the funding for special needs students to go towards funding more and better special needs teachers and classrooms, aides and adaptive equipment. That's what's needed the most, IMO.
I'm lucky, in my district we have apparently great funding because we have a large selection of self contained autism classrooms, which is something that is supposedly something hard to come by in some areas of the country. We also have aides and great teachers (some places), and our local United Way and Autism Society do a great job of providing sports opportunities every spring and fall for special needs kids. However, I know in other states and other districts, this isn't the case, and I know those parents would probably like any extra funding to be thrown into hiring teachers and aides and into improving classrooms and buying equipment like smartboards and ipads and things like that.
I dunno. Plus, Special Olympics comes to my son's school, and he participates in sports with them all the time, even when he was too young to be an official athlete.