You can't fix stupid...

[Bethsunshine]

Okay, I got involved in a "debate" with some hateful, rude, ignorant excuses for mothers in the Answers section, because they believe that it's wrong for special needs children ( including autistic) to get private school tuition paid for by their tax dollars. They think that if you have a special needs child, you should either homeschool them, or pay for private education out of your pocket, because after all, their "normal" child doesn't get any special perks, so why should your child ( the one you chose to have and chose to screw up, yes, someone actually said that!!) get any? Some of these people actually wished failure on special needs children who are being educated in private school, funded by tax dollars. Yeah, that is so mature and compassionate!! Why would anyone wish failure on anyone else's child? Don't these people, ( by the way, ALL of these rude hateful remarks were made by anonymous cowards) realize that it only takes a split second for your "normal" child to become a special needs child? All they have to do is fall off their bike, and smash their head on the sidewalk to become brain damaged. They could fall down your stairs and become paralyzed or sustain a head injury. They could contract meningitis or some other medical condition which could cause them to sustain brain damage, or lose their sight or hearing or ability to use their limbs. I'm willing to bet if something that tragic happened to THEIR "perfect" child, they'd be singing a different tune and grabbing up that "handout" as they kept putting it, in order for their child to get help!!!

What really burned my behind is the people that kept saying things like, educating these children wouldn't do any good, it won't work. Seriously, do these people actually think that autistic children, or children with some other special need, can't learn anything? Are we living in the Dark Ages here or what? There are PLENTY of "normal" children in the public school system ( which is paid for by our tax dollars, BTW) who will never amount to anything, because they're lazy, and have no morals or character or work ethic and will spend their lives mooching off of other people. THOSE are the ones I have a problem with sucking up tax payers' money!!! ( Those and the child molesters and murderers sitting in prison watching cable TV)Yeah, let's not try to educate children with special needs. Let's tell them they're stupid and worthless and will never be able to do anything with their lives, then THEY won't be able to get a job and then everyone will complain about them being on public assistance because they never learned how to do anything else. That makes sense!! I hope ya'll are catching my sarcasm!!

BTW, I don't have children with special needs, but I have several friends who do. I used to babysit regularly for a friend's daughter who was adopted from the foster care system and has many special needs because her birth mother did meth while she was pregnant. This little girl didn't walk until she was 2 and a half, is deaf in one ear, and also has a rare bleeding disorder. Until she was 3, she received physical, developmental, and hearing and speech therapy at home ( through the state) and now attends the school for the deaf because the public schools in our district do not have the appropriate programs to educate her. Her tuition to the deaf school is funded by the state and I don't complain about it one bit!!! I'd rather pay for her to go to school than pay for some welfare crackhead with 6 kids who never has any desire or ambition to change her ways and keeps living off of public assistance.Or some monster who has raped and murdered a child and is sitting in prison eating 3 meals a day and watching cable TV.

Special needs children CAN be educated, but you can't fix stupid!!

[ironkitten]

Jun. 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM

I taught studens who happen to have special needs in a public school system and believe me, most of the public school teachers don't really give a hoot about those kids.  I did.

I left the public school system because of the ignorant staff members.  Many of them set-up students with special needs to be suspended, no matter what their "condition" was just because they didn't want to teach them that day (and deal with their special needs as they should have been taught to do in college).

I became a Special Education Teacher because I care, I just chose the wrong place to teach in.

I am ALL FOR PRIVATE PLACEMENT for students who happen to have special needs.

Try to use the word "student" before using the words "special needs" as the student had no choice in the situation which caused the changes to occur in their body. 

God works in mysterious ways!

Good Luck and God Bless.

Peace and Love,

[JCPenny]

Jun. 24, 2009 at 10:39 AM Amen