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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
An awful lot of the budgets and mandates for special needs have nothing to do with the "halt and the drain" but are just about good teaching - teaching to kids who, for example, aren't going to learn to read in a group teaching environment but need one-on-one to address specific processing issues.
But thanks for that broad slur.
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No slur. I like broads. (Oh, wait, . . )
I wasn't speaking about what apparently is your pet peeve. I meant those who cannot function at all, and who need aides and nurses and equipment just to sit in a schoolroom with other kids, barely, if at all, able to know where they are. There are a lot of kids like that, they're very expensive to serve, but most state and fed courts have ruled that their parents have a right to mainstreaming. That's the "halt'. The "drain" are the uncooperative, disruptive, uneducable ones, who can no longer simply be expelled, who eat up tons of time and resources to no good end, and who should rightly be washing cars until they change their minds about education.
But thanks for the broad assumption.
