<div id="RTEContent"> <div class="MsoNormal">Rose and others,<br> <br> As someone that is in the Graduate Program at UI for Special Education, and the grandson of the couple that started the first school in Moscow for students with disabilities because the state did not educate them, it is important to me that children not be discriminated against and be given an opportunity for a decent education.<br> <br> However, what you are writing is just crap, pure bullshit. Logos and St. Mary's both have the same policy regarding special education; If they can afford to take a child they will. However, if they cannot responsibly give that a child a better education than the public schools which have more resources, then they do what is best for the child. If the MSD can barely afford the expense of a providing for a child with a disability when it gets 51 cents of every local tax dollar, how do you expect a small private school whose student's paren!
ts can
barely make tuition to afford it?<br> <br> Logos, St. Mary's, St. Rose's, and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Moscow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Day School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, and most private schools have the same policy which you stated but still accept students with special needs. It is not discrimination according to the law, because they are not publicly funded. It would be like saying that Rose Huskey is discriminating because her private home is not <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ADA</st1:place></st1:City> compliant. She does not want people in wheelchairs or using walking coming to her home. <br> <br> I also strongly suggest Rose, that you never make the claim again that because a student has a disability they bring down test scores. Such statements are false and discriminatory. Student with disabilities are given accommodations for their disability when taking state and federal tests, it is the law. In ad!
dition,
5% of students, the ones with most sever learning disabilities, are excused from having to take state and federal achievement tests. <br> <br> The reason that most students test poorly and/or do poorly in school is more due to social problems outside the classroom. Students that are in private schools USUALLY have more stable lives outside school, which is generally why they test higher. Catholic Schools rate higher, even though they are given alcohol at the church, because of community involvement with the children, strong discipline, and spirituality. This is lacking in public schools. <br> <br> Please do not every again make the claim that Logos tests higher because students in wheelchairs, with hearing aids, or are ADD drag the scores down. Such statements are wrong and offensive. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City></div> <br> <br> <br><br><b><i>DonaldH675@aol.com</i></b>
wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"> </font><div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">Visionaries:</font></div> <div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"> </font></div> <div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">Dale Courtney has brashly decided that he can "debunk the myth" that Logos School discriminates against academically/physically challenged students in its admission policy. <a href="http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/01/02/40100.aspx">http://right-mind.us/blogs/moscoweducation/archive/2006/01/02/40100.aspx</a> </font></div> <div><font id="role_document" color=!
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face="Georgia" size="3"> </font></div> <div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3">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.</font></div> <div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"> </font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Dates:<span style=""> </span></span><st1:date month="1" day="18" year="1994"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">January 18, 1994</span></st1:date></font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br><font face="Georgia">Objective: To clarify goals of </font></span><st1:place><font face="Georgia"><st1:PlaceName><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Logos</span></st1:PlaceName><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">School</span></st1:PlaceType></font></st1:place><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br><font face="Georgia">Scope:<span style=""> </span>This policy applies to all students and teachers in all the classrooms of<span style=""> </span></font></span><st1:place><font face="Georgia"><st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Logos</span></st1:PlaceName><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">School</span></st1:PlaceType></font></st1:place><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Georgia">.<br></font></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia">Definitions:<br><b style=""></b></font></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia"><b style="">Severe Learning Disability</b>:<span style=""> </span>Any condition in a potential student which would require a separate classroom, program, and staff in order to provide the educational services desi!
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the parents. E.g. Down’s syndrome, deaf/mute, blind, etc.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div></div> <div><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia"><b style=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Learning Disability</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">:<span style=""> </span>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.<span style=""> </span>E.g. Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Syndrome, dyslexia, etc.<span style=""> </span>For the purposes of this policy, it is not important whether or not the condition was accurately diagnosed and is a genuine learning disability.<o:p></o:p></span></font></font></div> <div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font
face="Georgia">Guidelines:<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia">1. <span style=""> </span>Children with a severe learning disability will not be admitted to Logos due to the lack of adequate staff, funding, and facilities.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia">2.<span style=""> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></div> <div style="margin-l!
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0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia">3.<span style=""> </span>Children who have been diagnosed as having a learning disability well be given as much individual instruction and encouragement as their classmates.” </font></font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Logos</span></st1:PlaceName><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Elementary School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style="font-size!
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font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Student/ Parent Handbook, pg.27, 2002-2003</span></font></font></o:p></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia">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.<span style=""> </span>This policy of student selection based on physical and intellectual potential or performance is particularly odious in a school purporting to be Christian.</font></font></span></div> <div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia">It nauseates me that our tax dollars are supporting this disgraceful policy. I personally don't give a ti!
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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.</font></font></span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font face="Georgia"> Rose</font></font></o:p></span><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"><font family="SERIF" ptsize="12" lang="0" size="3"> Huskey<br><br>"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi</font></font></div></div>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> !
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