re: For those who homeschool...

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Public schools are mandated to accomodate disabled children, sometime at extreme expense, whether it actually even benefits the child or not. I visited my nephew's class for something or other one time. There was a child strapped into a wheelchair with his own attendant. I couldn't tell if he was even conscious, but by God he was there getting exposed to whatever the lesson was, same as all the other kids. I support this in theory; in practice it can be taken to extremes.

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All too often I saw kids who had learning disabilities mixed into classes where a majority of kids were BD ("behavior disordered). They bullied their classmates, disrupted learning and the kids who behaved ended up getting less attention and help because the teacher was too busy with the bad kids.

When I taught 2nd grade, I had a student who was 12 and could not read. (I was in 8th grade when I was 12 by comparison). However my school refused to put him in special ed or to help in any way. Sad to see indeed.

There are some great schools who do it right and some who do so danged wrong. I taught at an inner city school and there wasn't even money in the budget to buy toilet paper. We had to provide our own. Special Ed was just one teacher with about 16 students. Where we live, I wouldn't send any child there or have any confidence that the child would anywhere near a good education or proper treatment.