SC Education Reform: Points On The Board
South Carolina’s left-leaning State Senate took a few baby steps toward real reform this week You must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Perhaps the special needs scholarships can be helpful to some families, but one irony about this one is that it’s the public schools that generally do — by far! — the most to support students with special needs. Big, big money is spent to hire teachers and teachers’ assistants and specialists, to have small class sizes, to provide special equipment, to even outsource to private entities for particular services.
Meanwhile, a great many private schools offer no special education services at all.
So — yeah, maybe there will be some families to find help in a private school — and I know there a few that specialize in helping with, for example, learning disabilities. But the vast majority of special education services are to be found in the public education system…..not in private schools.
Hey dont confuse Fits with the facts!Public schools are BAD!
It will be interesting to see if any of those SGOs publicize or even offer scholarships to kids who are currently in public schools. I’m betting not.
“it’s the public schools that generally do — by far! — the most to support students with special needs.”
Perhaps that’s because most special needs students go to public schools because their families don’t have options… this bill would give them those options.
Perhaps the special needs scholarships can be helpful to some families, but one irony about this one is that it’s the public schools that generally do — by far! — the most to support students with special needs. Big, big money is spent to hire teachers and teachers’ assistants and specialists, to have small class sizes, to provide special equipment, to even outsource to private entities for particular services.
Meanwhile, a great many private schools offer no special education services at all.
So — yeah, maybe there will be some families to find help in a private school — and I know there a few that specialize in helping with, for example, learning disabilities. But the vast majority of special education services are to be found in the public education system…..not in private schools.
Hey dont confuse Fits with the facts!Public schools are BAD!
It will be interesting to see if any of those SGOs publicize or even offer scholarships to kids who are currently in public schools. I’m betting not.
“it’s the public schools that generally do — by far! — the most to support students with special needs.”
Perhaps that’s because most special needs students go to public schools because their families don’t have options… this bill would give them those options.
Few private schools will accept truly special needs students (blind, deaf, profound CP, profound mental retardation, emotionally disabled, other serious disabilities) because they know they don’t have the resources to deal with their special needs.
It’s a shame that these legislators have such an apparently limited idea of what special needs encompasses. It’s not just about dyslexia and other comparatively trivial learning disabilities.
Few private schools will accept truly special needs students (blind, deaf, profound CP, profound mental retardation, emotionally disabled, other serious disabilities) because they know they don’t have the resources to deal with their special needs.
It’s a shame that these legislators have such an apparently limited idea of what special needs encompasses. It’s not just about dyslexia and other comparatively trivial learning disabilities.
South Carolina Public Schools are horrible. They are closer to prisons in their structure especially in the more poverty stricken area of the state. It’s a shame that people have to pay public school taxes and receive less than substandard education. So if you care about your kids and their safety private school is the way to go. Just too bad parents have to support the dysfunctional public/government ran schools.
South Carolina Public Schools are horrible. They are closer to prisons in their structure especially in the more poverty stricken area of the state. It’s a shame that people have to pay public school taxes and receive less than substandard education. So if you care about your kids and their safety private school is the way to go. Just too bad parents have to support the dysfunctional public/government ran schools.