[SPAM] Re: Has anyone ever filed a complaint with TEA?

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I guess I am one of the " pro-voucher " people. Something those who fought

scholarships might want to remember is, the last time I checked private

schools weren't in the practice of suing children with disabilities for

control of their education, nor using our tax dollars to do it. You can

chose to attend a private school, and when you leave a private school

you can take your dollars with you - even if it's not leaving by choice

- at least they're not holding your money and, by extension, your

children hostage. It's not a choice to pay a public school that abuses

or neglects a child and then turns around and robs parents through a

lengthy legal process designed to wear them down.

I had the most flabbergasting conversation with Advocacy Inc. today. One

of their attorneys told me that our Texas federal courts are

unsympathetic to IDEA claims, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is even

worse, and Supreme Court under Justice is notoriously hostile to

the disability community. Basically, he said, don't bother fighting.

Yes, parents have limited energy to fight a school. But apparently not

so limited that some parents who would rather not fight a school would

still muster up enough energy to fight the options scholarships would

bring and the resulting ripple effect that would wake up the TEA and

public school union behemoth. Instead, all we are left with is an

unwinnable fight as described by our federally funded state Protection

and Advocacy Agency.

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> You know, a parent of a special needs child only has so much energy.

Why

> put all of your energy into a very negative fight against the school

> bureaucracy? Take the energy you have and put it into your child and

your

> family. I made that choice too for my son and our family when he was

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> first and second grade. It turned out to be a fabulous decision. He

asked

> to go back to a " building school " for third grade, so he's

in public school

> for the first time. (He was kicked out of 2 private

schools—something to

> remember you pro-voucher people. Private schools do not ever HAVE to

take

> anyone. That's why they are private.)

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> Good luck,

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> " Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great

scientist.

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> They are wrong: it is character. "

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> Albert Einstein

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