Get Kids Out of California Public Schools

I'm almost done with CA schools; kid graduates next year.

Our introduction to public school was special education due to brain damage. It sounds like you're not working now- you can spend a LOT of time at the school, and you should. Watch them; they don't set goal for the kids, and they "poor baby" them- not a life skill.

Make sure your kids get challenged, not babysat, and don't be nice about it. I learned early on that being nice got my daughter sat in a corner, not worked with. The administration, especially, is awful. Most of the teachers my daughter had were decent, and really want to see the kids suceed.

My daughter's been out of special ed for a couple of years, will graduate next year, and start college after that.

Here's the reality of special services in the public schools: They are worse than no services. Why? Because the highly qualified SLP's and OT's are employed in private practice and, although there are exceptions, the bulk of the ot's and slp's emplyed by the school districts are not qualified to give the precise kind of therapy needed by children with moderate to severe special needs.

What happens is that the parent agrees to services on the child's IEP(Individualized Education Plan) for which the school is paid handsomely by the government, but the amount of funds that go to the special needs kids is minimal. The remainder goes to the general fund. The SLP's and OT's are loaded to the max with children. One SLP I know manages 70 children a week. She has neither the skills to provide for them all, nor the stamina, let alone the paperwork involved.

The child, in this all too familiar case, gets services maybe for two 20 minute sessions per week. What with vacations and holidays and absences by the therapists and the child, when the child is not progressing as expected, the parent is told the child is either too deficient and give him a couple more years or ADD which means he needs medication, or "not trying hard enough".

The parent wastes these precious years of time when therapy is very effective by buying into the school's promise of help.

Don't be fooled by what the school says it is offering. More likely than not, your child will not receive the therapy he needs.

If only parents took the time to educate themselves about the views, positions and background of candidates running for school boards and voted

Straight from the NEA talking points. Parents, in fact, have almost no say in anything. The NEA rakes in over $240 million bucks tax free every year. The union can, and does, rig any election anytime and anywhere they chose. The NEA tells the DNC what to do.

Most of your articles are crimes against girls so it's interesting that you would point to them to bolster your anti-homo argument.

"anti-homo" Yeah right. Mentioning the fact that homosexuals do molest kids is "anti-homo" I get it. The articles are taken as they appear. Plenty of homosexual cases on my profile. They are the most vicious of all too. 400 charges in one case alone. An HIV infected teacher raping a 9 year old boy. And on and on (think Jeffery Dahlmer and John Wayne Gacey, homosexuals are in a class by themselves when it comes to sick twisted minds). But your logic is flawed anyway. What difference does it make how many cases there are in one group or another? That straight men rape kids doesn't mean it is OK for homosexuals to rape kids.

Think when you were 14, 15, 16, etc. Would you let someone "molest" you unwillingly?

The kids asked for it. Molesters say this all the time. Tell it to the judge.

And still we mislabel it "pedophilia".

You might. I don't. Sexual relations with older adolescents past puberty is accurately termed "hebophilia" or "ephebophilia." In the case of boys , it is homosexual molestation. The media uses the word "pedophilia" because they are, they think, protecting homosexuals. As if everyone doesn't know these are homosexual men preying on boys just over the age of puberty.

Thanks. I figure the schools need all the help they can get. I offered to quit my job, and go there every day to help them- they were horrified, and immediately caved in.

They are not there for the benefit of the child, they are there to collect a paycheck. (Not all of them, but that's a safe assumption to start with.) Treat them like that, fight for what your kids need.

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