tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post8037418685554569661..comments2024-03-28T23:38:22.511-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Correcting the TimesMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-11423522342981147412012-11-19T15:45:10.708-08:002012-11-19T15:45:10.708-08:00Well, at least she likes to file lawsuits! That m...Well, at least she likes to file lawsuits! That may come in handy if a charter sets up in her area and either refuses to take her kids (your student is not "well served" by our program) or takes them and then fails to provide services -- much less transportation.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09923777229601243321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-67121236283004407312012-11-19T06:36:11.151-08:002012-11-19T06:36:11.151-08:00CT, please let us know how this story plays out.CT, please let us know how this story plays out.Charlie Mashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173903762962067277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-33139808464058867572012-11-18T22:40:16.285-08:002012-11-18T22:40:16.285-08:00Speking of propaganda.....
I was just at a social...Speking of propaganda.....<br /><br />I was just at a social gathering where a woman I am acquainted with started off on a spiel about how wonderful it will be to FINALLY have quality public education in Washington now that charter schools will be starting up. She said she couldn't wait to pull her kids from public school and put them in a charter school. <br />Now, while I am somewhat acquainted with this woman, I actually know her kids quite well. Both are special needs kids with pretty severe disabilities and have 1:1 aides. She gets extensive help from the state - home caregivers, a visiting nurse, etc. She is also one who has had her kids in 2 school districts and several different schools because she likes to file lawsuits for things like pressure sores on one child that she claimed was because the school wasn't putting him on the standing table - only the pressure sores appeared right as the winter break had ended and the school nurse called the mom the first day back in school to report them. <br />Anyway, I couldn't help myself after her charter school comments. I burst out laughing and asked her where she got the idea that charter schools would even take her kids given their high needs. She was pretty indignant at my question, and responded that she had attended some gathering that "one of those education groups for children" put on. (My guess was LEV or Stand on Children). Anyway, they had told her that her kids would do much better in a charter school - more attention, more focus on academics, teachers who care about students - she just went on and on and on. When she stopped, I asked her how her kids got to school each morning. Predictably, her response was the bus - both kids are in wheelchairs, so they wait for bus with the lifts. I asked her if she knew that most charter schools don't provide transportation, thus she'd be responsible for getting them to and from school each day. She insisted that couldn't be true - the charter people hadn't told her that. I also told her that the vast majority of special needs kids are not served by charter schools, and that there were numerous reports out about how few charters admit any kids on IEPs, and most definitely not kids with severe disabilities. Again she insisted that wasn't true, and I must be making it up, because she had talked to the main charter person (Any guesses here?) and she'd never mentioned that. Regardless, I evidently pissed her off because she told me where I could go - and that I could take the unions with me - and that her kids were going to go to a charter school next year. <br />OMG - what a snow job they've managed on some of these people with their propaganda. <br />-CTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-34143890278062741522012-11-18T19:23:52.194-08:002012-11-18T19:23:52.194-08:00Not only are you tired of correcting the Times, pe...Not only are you tired of correcting the Times, people are obviously tired of thinking up replies to these posts. I think it's important you continue to post these, but there is only so many times that I, as a reader, can call the Times' writers bozos without getting bored. I would think they would be tired of writing this drivel by now, too.<br /><br />-sick of the propagandaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com