tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post522943285366452956..comments2024-03-26T23:57:42.268-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: The Parent Trapirasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-19538462098282897712010-03-09T09:54:41.488-05:002010-03-09T09:54:41.488-05:00I was nodding in agreement with the first third, r...I was nodding in agreement with the first third, reading and re-reading to fully understand the rest. Thanks for making the effort to tell these stories. They're certainly powerful. <br /><br />My wife and I thought for several years we'd send our son to the nearby charter. We've decided that there's no good reason to do so, and instead we'll be supportive of him and his teachers at the public school a block away from our home. We'll put our efforts into improving education in our city on a larger scale, not supporting a few, who may or may not be the "lucky" ones.Clint Buhshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404749566577463942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-85511762622025873602010-03-08T19:32:47.816-05:002010-03-08T19:32:47.816-05:00Thank you so much for this post! I have been readi...Thank you so much for this post! I have been reading your blog for a few months, this is my first comment. Your voice is an important one that needs to be heard...please keep blogging.<br /><br />Everything in this post rang true for me, but I especially appreciated your challenge to the notion that “parental judgment almost always trumps the judgment of society, or surely, of professionals.” <br /><br />I am a parent and an Ontario educator. My youngest son has an Autism Spectrum Disorder–or an Autism Spectrum <i>Difference</i> in our lexicon (yes, he was vaccinated because I believed the professionals and scientific research, not the "fairy tales"). He will successfully graduate from a public high school in June 2011 and attend university in September 2010. His school years have been, on the whole, a success story and a positive experience for him. There are no charter schools or private schools in the city of 30,000 where we live. If there were, I know that he may not have been eligible to attend those schools...which would have been a loss not only for him, but also for all those “neuro-typical” teachers, students and parents who got to know and appreciate my son. <br /><br />Yes, public education needs change, but it doesn’t need to be replaced by charter schools which will mostly definitely lead to “segregation.”Sherry Masonnoreply@blogger.com