<div id="RTEContent"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;">“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<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p></o:p>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p>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. <span style=""> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p>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.<span style=""> </span>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 s!
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tuition would rise above the ability of parent(s) to pay. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p>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.<span style=""> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p><br> 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 !
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p><br> 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 th!
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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 grade teacher because it has been a year. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p>Take Care,<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p>_DJA<o:p></o:p></span></div> <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=US-ASCII"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name="GENERATOR"><font
id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Georgia" size="3"> <div>Visionaries:</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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." </div> <div> </div!
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<div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>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 s!
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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 </div> <div>rhetorical tricks are trotted out on a regular basis by both of you. Try harder, stick to the point, and address the issues, please.</div> <div> </div> <div>Rose Huskey</div> <div> </div> <div><font family="SERIF" ptsize="12" face="Georgia" lang="0" size="3">"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi</font></div></font>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯<br></blockquote><br></div><p>
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