Special Education: An Overlooked Factor to the Newtown Tragedy

[Corgigal]

31. agreed

and not to mention the moment the parent pulls the child out of the public school we lose the communities ability to monitor the student. Poof they are gone, now no one knows anything. If use to be when they were gone we might be glad because of what happened at Columbine (yes I know neither offender were in special ed) and we didn't have to worry about them going postal at our school one day. However this incident has taught me it's not so simple anymore.

Maybe we need to fund a special home school special ed area. Make the parent and student come to the school once a month and provide free books or information on group activities that the school is offering that the home school student can join. While we monitor the student and the parents to see how it's going. Yeah I know this will upset some, but we need to do threat assessment too. Secret Service is the specialist in this area but we have more profoundly disabled children coming down the pike and we owe it to them, their parents and society at large to try.

Please try to be kind educators, I'm just thinking out loud because I do understand the Special Ed system fights I had with my local school and we did work it out but not all parents were as lucky as I was with my son. Not to mention, at times it's the parents that can tube the whole system but again the minor student really takes the fall.

Again, I'm not blaming anyone. I 'm just thinking how we don't allow any humans to become so isolated.