Health & Fitness
VIDEO: This Week's Dramatic Board of Ed Meeting
An hour and a half meeting edited down to 16 minutes. Touching on comments made by Board of Education members and the public.
For some the world is a stage. For others it's a chess game, quietly thinking out their moves. Sometimes its a mix of both.
This video is the continuation of the video concerning the closure of the Farm Hills time-out or "scream" rooms.
After observing this event and studying the conditions that have lead up to this problem I have to say that there is no right answer for every child. If it doesn't work, try something else.
It's not fair to group all disabled children into a single class and expect them to develop properly while they are left out of all the opportunities that the general population children get. It's the reason the IDEA Act was created.
It's also unfair to allow a child with disabilities to hinder, disrupt and distract general population classes.
This decision on placement for children with disabilities should be done on a case by case basis with progress reports. Because of the IDEA Act, all disabled children are given the opportunity to be involved with their regular classmates. For some it may work great and help the child develop in ways a exclusionary class would not. For others it may not work out well, and clearly our ability to understand and cope with these issues has landed us where we are now.
What do you think?
Our state's requirement to follow the guidelines of the IEA Act is based on federal funding. If Connecticut didn't want to integrate children with disabilities into the general population then the state would refuse the additional federal funding that would be (I assume) contributed to help fund the local schools that need the extra funding for staff support.
