[Vision2020] Logos School's Policy of Entrance Discrimination

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries:
 
Dale Courtney has brashly decided that he can "debunk the myth" that  Logos 
School discriminates against academically/physically challenged students  in 
its admission policy.  
_http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/01/02/40100.aspx_ 
(http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/01/02/40100.aspx)   
 
He selectively quoted from my presentation to the Latah County Board of  
Equalization in July 2005.  It is my hope that he will open the discussion  and 
include the rest of the relevant remarks.  But, of course, I am not  holding my 
breath.  They presented Logos administrators and school  board members as the 
insufferably bigoted, ill-trained and under-educated, prats  that they are. I 
entered the following letter from the Logos School Elementary  School Handbook 
as part of the record of the BOE hearing.  None of these  policies have, to 
my knowledge, been changed, nor have any of them been  refuted.
 
 
“Dates:  January  18, 1994
Objective: To clarify goals of Logos School
Scope:  This policy  applies to all students and teachers in all the 
classrooms of  Logos School.
Definitions:
Severe Learning  Disability:  Any condition in a  potential student which 
would require a separate classroom, program, and staff  in order to provide the 
educational services desired by the parents. E.g. Down’s  syndrome, deaf/mute, 
blind, etc. 
Learning  Disability:  Any condition in a potential student or  student which 
does not require a separate classroom, program, and staff in order  to 
provide the education services desired by the parents.  E.g. Hyperactivity, 
Attention Deficit  Syndrome, dyslexia, etc.  For the  purposes of this policy, it is 
not important whether or not the condition was  accurately diagnosed and is a 
genuine learning  disability. 
Guidelines: 
1.         Children with a severe learning disability will not be admitted to 
Logos  due to the lack of adequate staff, funding, and  facilities. 
2.         Children who have been diagnosed as having a learning disability 
will be  required to meet the same academic standards as all the other children 
in their  grade level. 
3.         Children who have been diagnosed as having a learning disability 
well be  given as much individual instruction and encouragement as their  
classmates.”    The Logos Elementary  School  Student/ Parent Handbook, pg.27, 
2002-2003 
The erroneous description of Down’s Syndrome, “deaf/mute,” and  “blind” as “
learning disabilities” demonstrates a profound ignorance and  inherent 
academic bias toward physically disabled, developmentally delayed, or  learning 
disabled students.  This  policy of student selection based on physical and 
intellectual potential or  performance is particularly odious in a school purporting 
to be  Christian. 
It nauseates me that our tax dollars are supporting this  disgraceful policy. 
 I personally don't give a tinker's damn how Doug and  his henchmen run their 
schools. It is a source of amazement to me that parents  are deluded or 
bedazzled enough to fork out the money for what Doug is offering  - that's not my 
call.  But for heaven's sake (and I  mean that literally) I wish they weren't 
doing it on my dime. 
Rose Huskey

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then  they fight you, then 
you win." Mahatma  Gandhi
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