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post #1 of 7
3/3/09 at 11:58am
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This is my school district!

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009...aled_cour.html
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post #2 of 7
3/3/09 at 12:02pm
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This is the Monarch School:

http://www.bellefairejcb.org/monarch/
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post #3 of 7
3/3/09 at 12:19pm

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I have asked about special education for my dd in the public schools here and all I have gotten is bull. I get told that they have a wonderful system for special needs students. The newspaper reports differently. There have been plenty of articles about teacher abuse of special needs students and the teacher just got off. We're not talking small time spanking. We're talking if a parent had done it, the child would be removed from the home. And this is supposed to be the best environment for my child? This is why we home educate.
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post #4 of 7
3/3/09 at 6:51pm

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I am currently doing the IEP process now. Pretty much all they will do is put Ry in a special education room and he will get speech and ot for like 20 minutes a week.

I don't think so.
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post #5 of 7
3/3/09 at 6:52pm

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Oh, and that Monarch school seems pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
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post #6 of 7
3/3/09 at 7:09pm

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Yes, it does. Same here, Kim. No child left behind, eh?
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post #7 of 7
3/3/09 at 8:33pm

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Girls--This is the LAW! EVERYWHERE! Even in West Virginia. If your district can not provide what your child needs then they are required to provide alternate education elsewhere. We (and I teach in the inner city where most people are not educated on this and most children go undiagnosed) the school system spends hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on busing out of system alone let alone on alternative schools.

In the city (upper middle class) where I live and worked previously and my mom taught for 33 years they have children going to schools for the deaf, schools for autistic children, etc. The city busses them and pays the tuition. We live in the most expensive county in the entire United States and the city picks up the complete tab due to "least restrictive environment". So everyone wants to complain about No Child Left Behind until it is their child.....and they aren't being left behind. My city is paying millions for these kids and rightfully so.

You can not be denied. This is an act of Congress now. Any lawyer would take a case like this pro bono.
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