Re: The City of Weston taking over their public schools?

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-- The City of Weston taking over their public schools?> To: sList > Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 10:56 AM > > > > > > > A fair amount of notice has been given to the City of Weston taking > over their schools from the Broward County Board of Education. Now I > understand this may be just posturing by the City, but the members of > this list might want to consider the ramifications if this occurred for > special education programs. If the way the City handles resources for > public field space is any indication, our kids would probably get the > short end of the stick. > > As has been mentioned previously, the City of Weston delegates the use > of its public fields to an organization called the Weston Sports > Alliance, Inc (WSA). The WSA is made up exclusively of the established > youth sports organizations of the City. Neither the WSA nor its member > organizations are required to create or maintain any recreational > programming for special populations, and currently only two programs > exist; 1) AYSO which groups 50 children of all disabilities in a one > and a half hour session in the middle of Sundays, 2) and a Little > League program that has a similar structure with 13 children. To my > knowledge, no child from any of these programs has graduated to any > form inclusive enviroment to play with their peers, and very little > training or development is attempted. The field time allocated is > Sundays when no other groups want the space. > > Over the last three months, attempts have been made to secure field > space for a baseball program to actually teach our kids the sport, and > have them play in some form with their typical peers so that some point > in the future they can actually play the game. Continually these > efforts have been met with responses from the Mayor of the City, the > President of the WSA, and the Presidents of the AYSO and the Little > League that the current programming is sufficient, and various road > blocks have been put in place to stop putting these kids on the fields, > so more programming can be added for typical kids. > > Now I don't think it is a stretch to imagine the ramifications for > Weston's public schools. A city school system would have limited > resources, as there are limited resources for recreational programs. > Would a city appointed board determine that it was enough to put all > special populations in one setting where they had no ability to > interact with their typical peers? If class space was lacking, > finding "seperate but equal" locations to warehouse these children? > Fighting McKay so they could receive state dollars to maintain subpar > programming? > > If the City of Weston cannot adaquately manage sports fields for our > kids, what business do they have managing their schools? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Caprio-NegretVice President/Director of PRRainbow Guardianwww.rainbowguardian.orgsamantharainbowguardian (DOT) org