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Subject: I am boycotting ABEKA

Date: June 13, 2008 at 10:17 am PST

In Reply to: BJU versus ABEKA DVD programs posted by ann on June 10,

2008 at 11:55 am:

Turns out, Abeka has an anti disabled children policy. They have a

policy that any child with a disability, regardless of that

disability, even if they are more than capable of doing the work,

that child is not allowed to enroll in their Academy program. They

say the child can still purchase the materials, they just will not be

allowed in their academy program. They keep statistics to advertise

their program with and it is a risk to have a disabled child in their

program. I h ave spoken to a number of people there including e

Diloni and Troy Shoemaker and they maintain that they have a policy

that no child with any sort of disability, regardless of the child's

academic ability to do the work, is allowed to enroll in their

program. THEREFORE, if you have any respect care or concern for

children at all, I would highly recommend not using their program.

This includes children with speech delays (no related reading

problems), Spina Bifida, etc...or in my son's case, a mild fine motor

delay making it so that at 6 yrs old, I wanted him to continue print

for another year rather than starting cursive. As soon as they found

out he has a fine motor delay, he was ex'ed out of their program and

not allowed to enroll. His standardized test scores...the overall

score was 98th percentile. So he has no issue at all keeping up. But

once they found out he has a small problem that would qualify for him

OT, they enacted their anti-disabled child policy.