[Vision2020] Logos School's Policy of Entrance Discrimination

[Donovan Arnold]

    “If private  school X bars disabled students - or effectively bars them by failing to  provide the accommodations necessary for the student to be successful - they  have/practice discriminatory entrance requirements.”—Rose Huskey
          Rose, your  personal arbitrary definition of what is discriminatory is not the same definition  of discrimination according to state and federal law regarding education. Nor that  of most people in the special education field. Your definition contradicts the  law on several fronts.
           First, your  words, “necessary for the student to be successful” is not the purpose nor the  function of accommodations for students with disabilities. The function of accommodations  is NOT to make the student successful, but to make things equally accessible.  A student who is blind is only accommodated so  far in that they are given equal access to the material in a verbal format.  This does not guarantee success. The student could get straight A’s or straight  F’s. 
           Second, in  order for a practice to be discriminatory the request for accommodation must be  reasonable and not impose an undue burden on the facility or community.  I do not think a small school like Logos or  St. Mary’s that relies on donations to keep the school running could afford  millions of dollars in renovations and professional employee salaries to  retrofit the building and provide efficient staffing to assist with persons  with disabilities. In order to do so, tuition would rise above the ability of  parent(s) to pay. 
           Third, the  exclusion is not toward the child with the disability for their disability. The  exclusion is aimed at the economic realities of being able to keep the school  operating and at providing a quality education for each student charged with  their care.  A teacher asked to care for  a child with sever medical problems that had no medical training would be irresponsible  for taking on that duty in the face of lacking training and proper equipment. 
           
  Finally, if it  is the FAULT of student with disabilities, as you claim Rose, that make up the  difference between the scores of private schools and public schools, and accommodations  are suppose to make the students “successful”, as you claim, is it not the  public schools you should be angry at? They clearly are not making things equal  with the students that do not have disabilities despite being given 51% of  local tax dollars. 
           
  My POINT here  is that students with disabilities are NOT the cause of lower scores if they  are given proper accommodations by the state; that the true cause of public  schools doing more poorly is two fold. First, public schools have to take in  children that are lacking a social and economic support system that is needed  to be in place BEFORE a child can learn, such as a safe and secure place to  live, a loving parent(s), and food on the table. Second, many private schools  teach the student not the subject. At private schools, like St. Mary’s, they do  not just teach math, English, science, history, and then send the child off.  Every aspect of the child’s upbringing is involved in the education, including  the spiritual. The system is about raising well-rounded, well-socialized,  spiritual, loving, caring, well-educated students, it is not about getting them  past the next academic achievement test so they do not lose funding, or pawning  Johnny off to the fourth gra!
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           Take Care,
           _DJA
    

DonaldH675 at aol.com wrote:          Visionaries:
   
  If private school X bars disabled students - or effectively bars them by   failing to provide the accommodations necessary for the student to be successful   - they have/practice discriminatory entrance requirements.  If private   school x states that policy in their student handbook they have placed the   public on notice regarding their admission policies.
   
  Private schools are free to structure their internal policies anyway they   wish.  But, when they crow about the academic achievements of their student   body (in a not so subtle comparison to public schools who do not practice   similar enrollment discrimination) claiming that pedagogy is the foundation   of their success, I think it is fair to say, "Hold your horses,   boys, try telling the whole story."   
   
  Once again, I don't care what philosophy or standards are employed by   private school X, or even, for example, Logos School.  But don't kid   yourselves, Visionaries, our tax dollars - yours and mine - both through   501(c)(3) exemption and local property tax exemption support that   discrimination.  I find that repugnant.  
   
  Donovan, try to get the point of my post before you comment on it.    Yet again you miss the thesis of the argument.  In that regard, you differ   little from Dale Courtney.  Sometimes people don't address the issue   because they are incapable of discerning what it is; at other times it is   because there is no effective answer that can be given to defend morally   and spiritually corrupt behavior.  Then, (a frequent Kirk ploy)  it's   time to re-frame the premise of the original argument.  Thus, Dale   claims that I said Logos is bad because it has smart students or Donovan claims   Rose Huskey doesn't know anything about Special Education and makes mean,   ignorant remarks about disabled people.   It's a pity that such   tiresome, transparent, and sophomoric 
  rhetorical tricks are trotted out on a regular basis by both of you.    Try harder, stick to the point, and address the issues, please.
   
  Rose Huskey
   
  "First they   ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma   Gandhi
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