Jack Rogers, I am a parent with two kids diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. I wouldn’t have had to seek a diagnosis for my children except for all the judgmental idiots in the public school system. Teachers who aren’t trained to handle children’s learning differences and/or aren’t allowed to make any accommodations in their own classroom have no choice but to either try to get kids diagnosed with LD and get them out of their classrooms, or provoke the parents until the parents do something about it like getting a diagnosis themselves or pulling their kid out of public school. I know plenty of parents who’ve had to do one or both of those things just to get their child the education he deserves.
So get down off your high horse Mr. Rogers, and come live in the real world of kids more than one standard deviation from the mean. Walk a mile in my shoes and then tell me to my face that I got my kids diagnosed and started homeschooling them just so they could get advantages they didn’t deserve.
