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To: combjelly who wrote (46628)	11/27/2017 2:42:50 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 358629

Obviously, this is more complicated that I envisaged two hours ago. However, my point really is that there should be a more equitable way of doing things that allows parents who wish to use alternative schools to have that option. Perhaps a voucher system funded out of the budget which now runs schools, I don't know. What is most evident to me, because I see it up close, is that special needs kids who come from money have alternatives You're likely familiar with the 29 Acres program in Dallas: I know some of these parents and they work hard to take care of these children and everything they do is expensive. But kids with serious autism challenges are born to the poor and middle class as well, and I'm not sure their care in some cases is much better than it was 50 years ago, unfortunately. I'm making an extreme argument for a more general case -- I'm not sure the public school system is the right place for everyone yet everyone's money is bound up in that program. I am sensitive to the need to avoid a "death spiral" in the public school system. It would take a considerable re-thinking at both the federal and state level to do anything with it.