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“DiSatan” really needs to be prosecuted for attempted murder, or some other appropriate charge. Abbot, too.
Give the kid ivermictin… Better that than everybody having to wear face diapers.
I’m starting to think that DeathSantis and his ilk just want kids to die… maybe like, Abbott, they see it as a way to save money. No disabled kids = no additional funding for special education or other services.
Good Gawd if you don’t want your child wearing a mask then keep them home, and school them yourself. Make sure to instill in them that kids need to only think of themselves.
One of the things I didn’t see mentioned is that most/some kids that need an IEP also have an aide assigned to help that child in the classroom with regular students. And if there is more than one child that has an IEP there will be more aides. If the families that have kids that have IEPs and also need an aide, but those kids aren’t in school then did they not hire the extra aides, or what are those aides doing?
Then there’s the money. Part of my property tax goes to the local school district, if the local school district isn’t willing to accommodate a child with special needs then what happens to the part of the parent’s property tax that goes to the school district?
His plan right now is to get himself elected president, then pardon himself…
I love the parent screams about not letting schools make choices for their kids. Hello! That’s what schools do! They decided when your kid wakes up, what they wear, how they can behave, what they can do, etc. This applies to evil public schools and wonderful /s charter schools. You are free to homeschool if you don’t like it.
DeSantis has that pathological lack of empathy common among right wingers.
Is our Republicans learning? No, they isn’t.
And the governors and states discussed herein are not even the dumbest by a long shot.
The RWNJs think that their special needs to save their kids from dreaded face diapers outweigh this kid’s special needs to get educated in a way compatible with his health conditions. The parent might freak out over their kid’s freedom-denying face diaper and this other kid might die. It’s clear the parent freedom-denial-angst outweigh the death, right?
The problem going down this rathole is it leads straight to the logic behind vouchers and the right-wing drive to defund public schooling and force my taxes, and yours, to pay for right-wing and religion-centric education. We ALL pay taxes to provide public education to ALL kids. The problem is not what happens to one taxpayer’s taxes when their kid is denied a safe way to get that public education. The problem is denying that safe way.
Kristi Noem needs to be dropping a crate of microphones… She’ll probably use these stories and statistics to make her case in the 2024 primary running for leader of the dunces.
I though that IDEA ( Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ) covered all kids in public school with a disability? I also thought federal funds were issued to help a school district carry out a child’s IEP, which would cover the salary of a teacher’s aid?
I get that if you pull your child out of in class learning for virtual learning that then the local school loses money. But this is crazy to endanger young kids, and yes young kids are getting sick, and some are dying, just because some asshole parents won’t put a mask on their kid.
In my world it would be those who won’t wear a mask be given the boot their other options.
"… top county official Chris Hill defended his decision, stating “freedom is more important than education.”
Then what the hell do we need YOU for, asshole?!
Exactly! Masks or segregation for those whose parents’ are, or have convinced their kid to be, mask refuseniks is the right answer, not denying in-person education to an immunocompromised kid because of others’ selfishness.
Sad and enraging
No more football scrimmages…
I can’t speak for Florida, but, man, that would not fly here in Texas.
School for son who is a special education specialist at the elementary level has been in session for nearly 3 weeks. He still does not have an aide to help the students.
No one responded, so she called the state education department, which told her, she said, that when she signed a home-schooling form to opt in to the virtual program last year, she had effectively withdrawn her grandsons from the public school. And that meant they were no longer entitled to the disability accommodations and services that were part of their IEPs. The Florida Department of Education did not respond to specific questions about services for students with disabilities in virtual schools.
Gambrel was baffled. She recalled signing a form indicating that she was selecting home school, but she didn’t realize that by selecting the virtual program the district was pushing, she was taking her grandkids out of the local school system.
Bait and switch by the Florida Department of Education.
They’d love to help, but they are too busy harassing schools over masks.
Mr DeathSantis wants children to die .