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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 84473" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I have mixed feelings about this case. I should preface by saying that I have a child whose private school is being paid for by my SD. Although I live in a suburb, the school he goes to is in NYC proper and most of his classmates are funded by NYC DOE. The boy around whom the lawsuit revolves is the son of one of the richest men in the country. I find it upsetting that someone who can so clearly afford to pay the private school fee is taking money from the city because that means that another child, whose family can't afford the tuition, will not have the same opportunity. If I were a millionaire, I would pay my son's private school tuition and I think this guy should pay his own kid's.</p><p></p><p>The other issue is how much, if any, time is a child required to stay in district before outside or private placement can be sought. This boy did not spend one day in the public school. My son, who is dyslexic (which is what I think this kid is) spent K-5 in public school. Once they accepted that he is dyslexic, they did a great job remediating his reading with Orton-Gillingham and Wilson. He was given an Alpha smart and an array of assistance. The main reason he is now in private school is that the middle school was not equipped to handle him - they handle lower functioning kids very well in a self-contained class and an inclusion class and kids who need less help with every other day resource, but they have no gifted Learning Disability (LD) program. IF this lawsuit kid is dyslexic, I fully believe that the NYC public schools (the system I was educated in myself) could help him.</p><p></p><p>How long is too long to try? It depends. If you try Wilson or O-G for a semester and the kid is not getting it, he likely needs it more intensively than the ps can do it. My son did not need that intensity then, though there are kids who do. If you have a kid who is severely autistic and there's no autistic class in the ps that has kids like him, send him to private school right away. If your child has physical handicaps and the building can't accommodate, don't make them suffer, find a place where they can wheel around or where their seeing eye dog is welcome. In any event, I think it should never be more than one semester to one year to judge if progress is being made. </p><p></p><p>I really think I might feel differently if the family involved was not so damned rich!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 84473, member: 3493"] I have mixed feelings about this case. I should preface by saying that I have a child whose private school is being paid for by my SD. Although I live in a suburb, the school he goes to is in NYC proper and most of his classmates are funded by NYC DOE. The boy around whom the lawsuit revolves is the son of one of the richest men in the country. I find it upsetting that someone who can so clearly afford to pay the private school fee is taking money from the city because that means that another child, whose family can't afford the tuition, will not have the same opportunity. If I were a millionaire, I would pay my son's private school tuition and I think this guy should pay his own kid's. The other issue is how much, if any, time is a child required to stay in district before outside or private placement can be sought. This boy did not spend one day in the public school. My son, who is dyslexic (which is what I think this kid is) spent K-5 in public school. Once they accepted that he is dyslexic, they did a great job remediating his reading with Orton-Gillingham and Wilson. He was given an Alpha smart and an array of assistance. The main reason he is now in private school is that the middle school was not equipped to handle him - they handle lower functioning kids very well in a self-contained class and an inclusion class and kids who need less help with every other day resource, but they have no gifted Learning Disability (LD) program. IF this lawsuit kid is dyslexic, I fully believe that the NYC public schools (the system I was educated in myself) could help him. How long is too long to try? It depends. If you try Wilson or O-G for a semester and the kid is not getting it, he likely needs it more intensively than the ps can do it. My son did not need that intensity then, though there are kids who do. If you have a kid who is severely autistic and there's no autistic class in the ps that has kids like him, send him to private school right away. If your child has physical handicaps and the building can't accommodate, don't make them suffer, find a place where they can wheel around or where their seeing eye dog is welcome. In any event, I think it should never be more than one semester to one year to judge if progress is being made. I really think I might feel differently if the family involved was not so damned rich! [/QUOTE]
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