discrimination
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:31 PM
From:
"loree baird"
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Hi Cameo,
It is my personal opinion that the poor and minority are NOT served as well. In my state, if the districts would follow the mandate, things wouldn't be bad. But the districts do not, nearly all of them, follow the mandate at all. And the only ones who have any option to force them are those who are rich enough to afford legal action. While due process brought by LD parents is paid for by the district if the parents win, due process brought by gifted parents is always the financial responsibility of the parents, even if they win. This makes it a rich-folks game.
There is a small subset of parents who feel gifted is a badge of honor; they are the ones who don't "get it" and do not understand what gifted is. There is also a small subset of gifted professionals who feel that gifted is the dominion of the middle to upper class, and those folks offend me. The rest of the field has found that gifted occurs in a similar percentage across ALL income and class levels, and that we must make sure our resources are spent helping ALL these gifted kids, especially those whose parents are without the financial resource to help themselves.
Once you have testing, you might consider joining omitted if the testing equalizes your child. It's free, though a long annoying application. And omitted can help YOUR child. They're good folks, and the resources range from on-line to in-real-life social gatherings and support, and much more.
Hope this helps.
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