School In Need Of Improvement
Reality check here!
As I reported before, CNHT is helping a set of parents who are trying to keep their son in a rehab center which specializes in taking care of people who have disabilities instead of “mainstreaming” him in a public school. With this young man the list of disabilities is long and difficult to even read. God bless his parents.
The school that wants to drag him into their new “life skills” experiment is one you can read about today in most NH newspapers, its Hillsboro/Deering, a $19 million dollar per year effort in total dumbdownization.
So we protest the move on these grounds:
School has shown itself to be incompetent when it comes to putting the transition of the student in place.
It will by no means be cost effective.
Moving a person with this many disabilities has huge liabilities.
I addressed this with the Hillsboro Deering School Board last Monday night in a public meeting with the parents in attendance. I told them we were going to use the student’s name in public during this process and that the parents had no problem with that. I dropped the hint that I will be on the next agenda with a public request for a recorded vote to reverse this idiotic transition.
The next day, after dropping off copies of medical records for each school board member listing all the problems with Joel, the school asked us to sign notarized waivers, releasing them from responsibility for using a student’s name in public.
This begs the question. If the Hillsboro/Deering School Board had as much concern for the student and taxpayers regarding this stupid experiment as they do for getting sued for using his name, wouldn’t we not even be doing this in the first place?
Now THIS would make a great movie.
Ed Naile
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We also need to look in the mirror as ultimately WE are responsible for the legislation that gets passed on the Federal as well as local level.This state,in its recent elections,'04 and '06,elected Dems(and thier idiotic agendas) to run this state.Until we can reverse that trend,and if the Republican Party in this state can grow a spine,we might be able to reverse some of the worse legislation.
Unfortunately,if you talk to a normal voter(not a political junkie) you will find out quickly just how clueless they are to the political world around them.It does not help that Repubs act like liberals thereby making it harder to differentiate between the two.It is depressing to vote when the only choices are liberal or more liberal.
All I get is "I can't say anything about that" or "we've never had anything like that I'll have to check with someone else".
You can report school violations to them and all they do is tell the school to fix them. Maybe if they started fining them the schools would think twice. They don't want to cut into their budget and the taxpayer won't be happy that their taxes are going to fines that could have been avoided if the school was doing their job correctly.
There are few to no options when it comes to fighting for your child. Not many parents have the tens of thousands of dollars it costs for a lawyer which they may or may not get back depending if they win or not.
I know it is blasphemy to many, but we need to remember that our Constitution guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome. Some people are better equipped to take advantage of the opportunities than others, and thus the outcome will be different. This is just life.