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I seem to do that a lot at times.

Example: Here in Alabama school systems are taxed to the max with what they can do financially. In one of the local school systems there is a young lady who has multiple things working against her. She I believe is blind and autistic and has Cystic Fibroses and is confined to wheelchair. She is suppose to be starting high school. Her parents were informed that due to the needs of their child she would need to attend a different high school than the one her neighborhood is zoned for. That school she wishes to attend is in the middle of some construction upgrades and the other school has everything in place for her to attend there now. The parents are fighting for their daughter to attend the school she was originally zoned to attend. Personally I feel the school system is doing what they can. I do not know the child or the parents so I am trying to be objective since I know a little about how school systems presently can't even afford new books. I just got an e-mail about an event to raise money so the family can continue their legal fight against the school system. My feelings about this I will keep to myself.
 
I'm not sure why you'd fight to place your daughter in a school that can't adequately cater for her extensive special needs.

Is the other school extremely inconvenient for her to attend due to distance? Or is it more a case of that her friends will be attending the school that they can't take her at?
 
HK said:
I'm not sure why you'd fight to place your daughter in a school that can't adequately cater for her extensive special needs.

Is the other school extremely inconvenient for her to attend due to distance? Or is it more a case of that her friends will be attending the school that they can't take her at?
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I believe it is mostly a friends things & slight inconvenience for the parents. The two schools are geographically less than 4 miles apart.
 
It's tricky. Because I know when you're that age, your friends are more important than whether your school has disabled access. But it's also likely when you're young that the people you hang out with at 12 won't be the same people you hang out with at 16. Should her parents send her to the better equipped school on the basis that she'll make new friends, or try to send her to the same one as her friends, which isn't as well set up to accommodate her.

Are there real safety issues with her going to the same school as her friends? It'd be pretty awful if they campaigned to send her there and in the event of an emergency something happened to her which would have been preventable at the other school.
 
if it were my daughter i would be glad she was being accommodated in a school that could meet her needs, i would want my daughter to experience all that the other kids might have to experience, being apart from friends is one of lifes challenges - it wont kill her

seems to me the parents are spoiling for a fight, if it was this it would be something else

does the phrase kid stuck in the middle sound familiar
 
HK said:
It's tricky. Because I know when you're that age, your friends are more important than whether your school has disabled access. But it's also likely when you're young that the people you hang out with at 12 won't be the same people you hang out with at 16. Should her parents send her to the better equipped school on the basis that she'll make new friends, or try to send her to the same one as her friends, which isn't as well set up to accommodate her.

Are there real safety issues with her going to the same school as her friends? It'd be pretty awful if they campaigned to send her there and in the event of an emergency something happened to her which would have been preventable at the other school.
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I believe the other school is both better equiped and has personnel there trained in dealing with special needs children. The other school is neither equipped nor has the trained personnel there. If the child attends the school the parents desire it will require at least one additional salaried employee for one child. In a system where the classrooms are averaging 30 students per teaching unit that is another consideration for the school system. I guess you understand why I am just biting my tongue at this point.
 
porterjack said:
if it were my daughter i would be glad she was being accommodated in a school that could meet her needs, i would want my daughter to experience all that the other kids might have to experience, being apart from friends is one of lifes challenges - it wont kill her

seems to me the parents are spoiling for a fight, if it was this it would be something else

does the phrase kid stuck in the middle sound familiar
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That is the way I see it as well. Rather than cause a rift with my friends I am just keeping my mouth shut & my wallet closed.
 
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