Supreme Court rules for deaf student who says school district failed him

**** that school, they get paid more for special needs students regardless of if they get proper accommodations

 

Has this kid tried listening harder? Zoomers want everything on a silver platter.

 

Story checks out. There’s a lot of unqualified, opinionated people running school districts. The power goes to their heads and they get stubborn and they lie.

For example, my wife’s school district (where she works) refused to cover my niece on their self funded health insurance even though we had the correct guardianship paperwork. Their response was ‘if we let her do it, anyone could do it’, which is a really asinine thing to say, because obviously everyone in that completely legal situation should be able to cover their kids. Rather than fight it, we switched to my insurance which was far superior anyway. My wife didn’t want to rock the boat because she was building her career there.

Another time her principal refused to let our 4yo come to pre-k on the pretense that her rule was that she didn’t allow any of her staff to do that without exception. Our 4yo has speech issues due to speech delay caused by some partial deafness for about a year due to needing tubes in his ears and being in a school with speech therapists would have been huge for him. Then a teacher transfers in who is related to the superintendent and her 4yo is allowed to come on to pre-k. So instead of my son getting the speech therapy he needs for free via public school, we have to pay for therapy and take him to the local school once a week instead, on top of paying for daycare. That was about a $20k hit, again because my wife didn’t want to rock the boat.

So school districts are full of ****. They’re politically driven and there are massively stupid people calling the shots. I hope this district gets its ass handed to them in court. Disgraceful.

 

Imagine if the parents could have taken him (and the tax dollars associated with him attending the school) to a different school that was specifically targeted at meeting his needs. Wouldn't that be great? Then he would have the necessary accommodations available to him and some random public school that isn't set up for it wouldn't be on the hook for it. The parents could have a choice of schools. Perhaps they could signify the transfer of those tax dollars with some kind of document, like a voucher.

 

What if there are no other schools near them that meet that meet those needs?

 

Why should tax dollars go toward kids? I think we need to cut taxes.

 

I can't say private schools are any better at accommodating people with disabilities from my personal experience. Maybe a school whose explicit mission is to provide services for the disabled, like that Michigan School for the Deaf.

 

The current school near them doesn't meet those needs, so he would be no worse off, he would just have the added option of going to a school further away that did.