Should My Wordless Kid Go to School with Your Normal Child?
When I was on the school board of the very small town I live in there were three special needs children that we knew were about to enter the school system and we spent a lot of time getting the funding together for them. Quite frankly, none of them should have been in the schools and we knew it but we also knew that any effort to turn them away would be met with a lawsuit.
One child had severe cerebral palsy and was also so retarded that she was almost in a vegetative state. School for her was free babysitting. We not only had to hire two minders for her but also had to do some extensive classroom renovation to accomodate her. The other two children were also severely retarded but only required one minder each. One of them eventually was taken to a public facility because she was so violent with the other children. NONE of these children benefited in any way from attempts to educate them or interaction with other children but we were forced to accomodate them at the cost of about $60,000.00 to $75,000.00 per child per year.
The case with your daughter is obviously quite different but the fact is that there are more special needs children like the ones I just described than your daughteer.
