Public schools + special needs kids .

[Timmy]

Hey look. I'm glad we support a public Ed program . It benefits the country . If you don't want to use it, fine . But why should we cut u a check if u don't want to use the system?

Parents already get tax breaks for having kids .

 

[Disir]

To put it into simplest terms: funding is finite. If you have just 2 students and $1000 to educate them, where's that limited resource best put? The kid with a thirst for knowledge and interest in learning, or the kid who needs an adult to help him go to the toilet every time, who, if you put a textbook in front of them giggles at all the pictures and exclaims "yay!" a lot?

Sucks, but we can't save everybody.

But there's that pesky Constitution again. You just can't throw one kid aside and not educate him in America.

You don't have to. You alter the criteria.

 

[Timmy]

I am kind of shocked on how many people here are basically against public education and educating handicapped kids .

 

[Disir]

If public education is going to be (and it is) the number one resource for children with disabilities then lets set the kids and the parents up for what they will actually need, It's still education.