SweetSue92
Diamond Member
My 5-year-old son is entitled to childhood services because of his disabilities.
Two years ago, he was expelled from our public preschool because of his behavior.
My husband and I are broke and broken, but we won't stop fighting for our son to get an education.
As a child with a disability, our 5-year-old son, Oscar, is legally entitled to early childhood services — and risks falling further behind developmentally without them. But two years ago, Oscar was expelled from our local public preschool in our school district because of his behavior, and none of the public therapeutic programs had space.
Oscar was diagnosed with ADHD, generalized anxiety, and features of pathological demand avoidance, meaning that his nervous system triggers a fight-or-flight reaction to perceived losses of autonomy. Sometimes Oscar behaves typically, but other times, seemingly without provocation, Oscar can become dysregulated, aggressive, and nonverbal.
After months of waiting, our school district still hadn't secured him a spot or offered so much as a single appropriate compensatory service, so we felt that we had no choice but to enroll him at a private school for children with sensory differences and learning challenges. We began a long and costly process of seeking tuition reimbursement from our local public-school district."
My son's private kindergarten costs $84,000 a year. We are forcing our public-school district to pay for it.
The author's 5-year-old son is entitled to childhood services because of his disabilities. When his school expelled him, his parents had no option.news.yahoo.com
TLDR. My son is an entitled spoilt brat, like his parents, who we refuse to take care of at home, and the public school refuses to take care of, so we send him to a private school and expect the taxpayer to pay for it. $84,000 per year.
NYC of course.
Individual education programs (IEPs) are determined, designed, and implemented with no regard whatsoever of the system's ability to provide the services. Nothing is beyond consideration or 'too expensive'.
A friends wife is a special needs teacher in NOtVA. She was telling about a retarded, blind, wheelchair bound kid of "recent immigrant" parents that spoke no English.
In the meeting was the parents, a translator, 2 special needs teachers, a Nurse, the principal and an Administrator all trying to come up with an education plan. She said it would cost a couple hundred thousand per year of taxpayer money.
And we wonder why our property taxes are through the roof.
This is everywhere. It's pervasive.
It's not just in NY or in "liberal" areas. My heart really does go out to children with special needs and their families, generally. But objectively they hold all the cards right now. A child like Oscar can be violent and run the classroom and a parent can cite "IEP" and it's all over for the other kids.
It has been this way for some time. It will only change when other parents rise up. And we're too much into victims in the 21st century for that to happen....yet.
