01-27-2013, 04:14 AM
(01-26-2013, 08:54 PM)username Wrote: I think taxpayer money is well spent helping veterans who come home with disabilities. Spending money to make sure that Jr. in a wheelchair can somehow play baseball with all the other kids seems like a reach that we can't afford.
I used to work in the Sped Ed Dept of a High School. Out of 3,000 there were 15 in wheel chairs. 13 out of the 15 were vegetative, they drooled all day, they had to be lifted out of the chair and stretched, they had to be tube fed. They watched tele-tubbies at school all day. These types of kids should be in a nursing home, not at school where specialized equipment had to be bought for each child (per state law, via taxpayer money).
The State law also said these kids were entitled to participate in sports-do you know who actually participated? The teachers aides. If it was Basketball, 1 aide would run around the court with the kid in the wheelchair, while the other aid would shoot baskets, same with art, music, or any other subject that took the kids away from Tele-tubbies.
What a ridiculous waste of money and manpower.