Comments on: "I want my child out of special ed!" http://www.legaldigest.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/ Texas School Administrators' Legal Digest Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:28:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Every Life Matters http://www.legaldigest.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Every Life Matters Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:47:00 +0000 http://ld.dnicol.wliondev.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/#comment-7 School educators are not always experts in determining what is truly in the best interest of students. Many times their decisions are based on keeping kids in Special Education for the sole reasons of fear that the child will "fail" a more rigorous state assessment if they are moved to regualar education and will then bring down test scores for the school and/or the school doesn't want to "stress" out the regular ed teachers by placing the Special Ed student into a regular classroom so they keep them in a lower level instructional and segregated classe without regard that many of these kids could and should be more appropriately placed in all regualar setting. When the parents try to get their child more appropriately placed some educators have resorted to fabricating "data", rehearsing prepared statements before an ARD and encouraging other teachers who will be in the ARD to say what the school wants to the detriment of the student, conspiring to encourage other older students to bully a younger special ed child to the point that the parents eventually withdraw their child from school so that the ARD meeting that the parent had wanted to have in order to move the son back into regular classes doesn't take place to "blackballing" teachers who refuse to engage in these and other deceptive practices. I know because I was a Special Ed teacher who was threatened and harrassed because I advocated for the student and parents. Let parents take their child out of special education. They have an ingredient that gives them an edge that educators don't have - and that is the one whose blood line is closet usually cares more for that person. Every life matters. School educators are not always experts in determining what is truly in the best interest of students. Many times their decisions are based on keeping kids in Special Education for the sole reasons of fear that the child will “fail” a more rigorous state assessment if they are moved to regualar education and will then bring down test scores for the school and/or the school doesn’t want to “stress” out the regular ed teachers by placing the Special Ed student into a regular classroom so they keep them in a lower level instructional and segregated classe without regard that many of these kids could and should be more appropriately placed in all regualar setting. When the parents try to get their child more appropriately placed some educators have resorted to fabricating “data”, rehearsing prepared statements before an ARD and encouraging other teachers who will be in the ARD to say what the school wants to the detriment of the student, conspiring to encourage other older students to bully a younger special ed child to the point that the parents eventually withdraw their child from school so that the ARD meeting that the parent had wanted to have in order to move the son back into regular classes doesn’t take place to “blackballing” teachers who refuse to engage in these and other deceptive practices. I know because I was a Special Ed teacher who was threatened and harrassed because I advocated for the student and parents. Let parents take their child out of special education. They have an ingredient that gives them an edge that educators don’t have – and that is the one whose blood line is closet usually cares more for that person. Every life matters.

]]> By: lawdaddy http://www.legaldigest.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-6 lawdaddy Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:26:00 +0000 http://ld.dnicol.wliondev.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/#comment-6 Encouraging and supporting due process as a means to resolve differences only benefits the law firms. The view expressed in this blog is an entertaining representation in that it assumes the public educators are doing what's 'best' for the child and parents are not. <br/><br/>This strikes me as laughably contradictory. Isn't it the position and legal strategy of your firm to argue that the schools have absolutely no obligation to do what's best, nor to even ensure a child makes progress at all, and that our public schools must merely provide an open door to education and nothing more?<br/><br/>Sure seems the interests and these kinds of decisions are much better left to the parents under those circumstances. You might want to drop that argument if you expect anyone to buy into slick positions like these. It sure doesn't do your clients any favors by undermining trust in our public education system. Encouraging and supporting due process as a means to resolve differences only benefits the law firms. The view expressed in this blog is an entertaining representation in that it assumes the public educators are doing what’s ‘best’ for the child and parents are not.

This strikes me as laughably contradictory. Isn’t it the position and legal strategy of your firm to argue that the schools have absolutely no obligation to do what’s best, nor to even ensure a child makes progress at all, and that our public schools must merely provide an open door to education and nothing more?

Sure seems the interests and these kinds of decisions are much better left to the parents under those circumstances. You might want to drop that argument if you expect anyone to buy into slick positions like these. It sure doesn’t do your clients any favors by undermining trust in our public education system.

]]> By: Shrinking Violet http://www.legaldigest.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Shrinking Violet Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:12:00 +0000 http://ld.dnicol.wliondev.com/blog/2008/06/i-want-my-child-out-of-special-ed/#comment-5 This is an interesting representation in that it assumes the public educators are doing what's "best" for the child and parents are not. Isn't it the position as well as the common argument of your firm that the schools have absolutely no obligation to do what's best, nor to even ensure a child makes progress at all, and that they must merely provide an open door to education?<br/><br/>Sure seems the best interests are better left to the parents under those circumstances. This is an interesting representation in that it assumes the public educators are doing what’s “best” for the child and parents are not. Isn’t it the position as well as the common argument of your firm that the schools have absolutely no obligation to do what’s best, nor to even ensure a child makes progress at all, and that they must merely provide an open door to education?

Sure seems the best interests are better left to the parents under those circumstances.

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