A friend of mine shared this from a local school district.

This kind of stuff infuriates me.

When Jonny was a kindergartener, our district pushed for us to transfer schools to get Jonny into a “specialized” half-day developmental program.

After we transferred him, one week into the school year, the district cancelled the entire program without any warning. All programs had to go all-day.

It effectively doubled all developmental half-day class sizes and left schools scrambling to fill the added teacher needs (again, ONE WEEK after school already started).

Jonny was forced to go to all-day kinder. He fell behind because he was still napping in the afternoons. The teacher did her best and would try to accommodate him and just let him sleep on a couch.

Then, the district fought us when we tried to retain Jonny another year in kindergarten because (of course) he wasn’t progressing and they took away his bus service when we insisted on having him repeat kindergarten.

There was absolutely NO reason to cut Jonnys half-day program one week into the year except our state incentivized all-day kindergarten and our district wanted a piece of the incentive.

How much of that money went back into the developmental and SPED programs?

(You already know the answer)

I’m so sick of school districts throwing our SPED programs under a proverbial bus.

Our kids deserve better!

Mead friends, I’m so disappointed with our district. Our Superintendent is proposing cuts of $3.2 million, and nearly 30% ($900k) of that comes from his special Ed cuts alone. All remaining Ed specs, and a lot of special ed para ed’s. This was presented at last night’s board meeting and I wish all parents with kids in special ed were aware of this. Why are these kids (and staff) always the ones to bear the brunt when our district needs to make cuts?

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