Of course she did. After all, we don’t want those kids in class with our kids.
The banality of evil: personified.
First they came for the disabled …
If it’s Trump and DeVos, the default reaction should be that the moves are nefarious and injurious to the least of us in America.
I would like to know who exactly has been complaining about the over-accommodation of students with handicaps.
It sounds to me as if the Rump regime is trying to go back to the days when children with disabilities were segregated. And during normal times I would ask why. But lately, I know the answer.
All I can say is, “Thank god that fake progressive Corporate Shillary didn’t get elected!”
Here in Texas, our wheelchair-bound governor tried to institute a voucher program to pull kids with disabilities out of public schools into private schools – except that the vouchers weren’t really enough to pay for private schools & most private schools don’t have the capacity to admit these children.
This on the heels of deep cuts to state programs that provide therapy for disabled kids through Medicaid over the last several years. (Funding restoration was attempted during the special session, but because it wasn’t on Abbott’s “priority list” – like the bathroom bill – it never made it out.)
Honest to God we seem to be at the point where simply that a thing is right and just is enough for these people to rabidly oppose it. If you don’t want to help children with handicaps, then whom in the god-damn hell are you willing to help?
Your comment is dead on accurate but unnecessarily restrictive. Every Secretary nominated by DT and confirmed by the GOP Senate personifies motives that are “nefarious and injurious to the least of us in America.”
Rescinding these 72 guidelines doesn’t affect me, at least directly, but, I do feel it is ironic that Donald Trump’s cabal is making America a little less great each and every day for all Americans. What this says to me, only the brightest and able bodied will get a chance at getting the most benefit from a public education. If you don’t fit in that bucket, then tough luck.
Fourth Reich.
She was just following orders…
They knew what they were getting into when they chose to be disabled.
What bothers me about actions like this is that this decision wasn’t made by anybody in education or the Education Department. THis is most likely a list handed to them by ALEC or some other outside conservative group, and the Trump people just passed it on.
Evil, stupidity, ignorance, and venality. What a combination. Just right to achieve maximum destruction.
DeVos is also taking the approach that boys will be boys, to the relief of the families who had to find attorneys to represent their sons.
I do not want to become a DeVos apologist, but the regulations did need to be reviewed. Some of the requirements were much too onerous, and restrictive, for schools. For example, any school that isn’t traditional – Montessori, Reggio, or another developmental approach – are prohibited from using at least some of the elements that work in their respective models for children with special needs. Some of the guidelines were redundant, and some were in opposition to earlier guidelines still on the books.
I haven’t reviewed the 72 guidelines eliminated, but there are many, many guidelines still in place.
Years ago I remember hearing that the right wing was up in arms about special education funding.
My son and daughter-in-law teach elementary special,education. Undoubtedly they know far more than these evil people about the best way to work with the students.
The Fourth Reich is speeding along more quickly than I expected it to.