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To: DMaA who wrote (20719)	6/13/2000 11:03:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

You are right about incentives being created to label children "special", but I think the waste of resources is even greater on top- heavy overhead. I cannot remember the percentage, but a striking amount of money goes into the central bureaucracy of each school district, rather than the individual schools. Catholic schools spend a fraction of what public schools do, with markedly better results. Some of it is the nuns, but much of it is the comparative austerity of diocesan education bureaucracies. More of the buck ends up in the classroom...........

To: DMaA who wrote (20719)	6/13/2000 1:00:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Parants are learning that the only way their children can get any attention from the schools is to have a "special" label attached to them. Consequently, parents are demanding their children be labeled. It's just nuts. And even more nuts, there are parents who "don't" want their "special" kids labeled, who want them mainstreamed. My wife is a resourse specialist in special ed. Her school has nearly all the non-english speaking students in the district. Chinese, korean, spanish, samoan, and a 6'8" 19 year old Dominican Republic basketball star/thug round out the menagerie. I listen to the same sad story every day...and bite my tongue. She needs someone just to listen.