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Interesting lawsuit in Orleans that could affect magnet and academy schools statewide.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:40 am
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:40 am
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My heart goes out to these parents but there is no financial way the school system can provide for each student such as this at every school. I do worry that Orleans Parish juries tend to be a reflection of Orleans Parish voters. A victory by the plaintiff could open up a flood of lawsuits statewide that could drown school systems statewide in legal costs. The family can afford this suit because the father is a disability attorney.
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The parents of a 9-year-old boy with profound disabilities have sued a selective charter school in New Orleans, claiming that the school’s use of an admissions test violates legal protections for students with disabilities.
In a lawsuit filed this week in New Orleans Civil District Court, Chris and Cristina Edmunds argue that the Willow School’s entrance exam excludes students with disabilities — including their son Oscar — from moving forward in the application process. As a result, they argue, the process violates state and federal protections for people with disabilities, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Louisiana Human Rights Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the federal law that gives students with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education.
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Born with 21Q Partial Deletion Syndrome, Oscar has the cognitive ability of a 1-or-2-year-old child. He is nonverbal but communicates using a device that tracks his eye movement, allowing him to ask for things like water or for people like his mom, dad or younger sister.
My heart goes out to these parents but there is no financial way the school system can provide for each student such as this at every school. I do worry that Orleans Parish juries tend to be a reflection of Orleans Parish voters. A victory by the plaintiff could open up a flood of lawsuits statewide that could drown school systems statewide in legal costs. The family can afford this suit because the father is a disability attorney.
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Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:47 am to Cell of Awareness
frick these activist parents.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:51 am to Cell of Awareness
Yep not all schools are equipped to handle severe profound children. My brother has a child with spina bifida and none of the local private schools can accept him. It takes specialized staff to handle these kids and if there aren’t enough enrolled to cover those costs it just isn’t feasible. Public schools have no choice but private can do what they want. Those people sound insufferable
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:51 am to Cell of Awareness
This is why we can't have nice things (one of many reasons)
Are they just looking for free day care for him? Why would he need a charter school?
Are they just looking for free day care for him? Why would he need a charter school?
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:52 am to cubsfan5150
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frick these activist parents.
It is hard for me to criticize someone in this situation. I can criticize a system that allows their emotions to cost other students so much.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:53 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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This is why we can't have nice things (one of many reasons)
Are they just looking for free day care for him? Why would he need a charter school?
That's what everybody wants from public schools.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 9:54 am to bayoudude
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Yep not all schools are equipped to handle severe profound children. My brother has a child with spina bifida and none of the local private schools can accept him. It takes specialized staff to handle these kids and if there aren’t enough enrolled to cover those costs it just isn’t feasible. Public schools have no choice but private can do what they want. Those people sound insufferable
There is not a private school in this state that does not take at least a very small amount of taxdollars. In for a penny, in for a dollar.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:00 am to cubsfan5150
Just so people understand the type school that these parents want a child that can't even function at a PreK level to go to.
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The Willow School 2024 Rankings
The Willow School is ranked #178 in the National Rankings. Schools are ranked on their performance on state-required tests, graduation and how well they prepare students for college. Read more about how we rank the Best High Schools.
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#178 in National Rankings
#5 in Louisiana High Schools
#4in New Orleans, LA Metro Area High Schools
#41in Charter High Schools
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Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:02 am to Cell of Awareness
Will he also get a starting spot on the football team because the tryouts discriminate against people with disabilities.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:02 am to Cell of Awareness
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There is not a private school in this state that does not take at least a very small amount of taxdollars. In for a penny, in for a dollar.
I can guess that tax dollars directed away from public schools that must provide for disabled children and toward private schools than don't have that expense is a controversial topic.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:08 am to Cell of Awareness
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The parents of a 9-year-old boy with profound disabilities
Oscar has the cognitive ability of a 1-or-2-year-old child
I feel for these parents, but he should not be in a school system with kids his age that do not have similar issues. He needs specialized treatment and education for him to catch up (if his disability allows him to) before putting him with other 4th graders.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:10 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Are they just looking for free day care for him?
Isn't every parent?
Isn't that why public school was created?
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:10 am to wm72
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can guess that tax dollars directed away from public schools that must provide for disabled children and toward private schools than don't have that expense is a controversial topic.
We are talking crumbs on most cases and far less than those private school parents pay for taxes that do not go to their schools.
Just in the case of ADA law, which needs to be rewritten, if they took one dollar they would be required to establish an IEP for a disabled child.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:11 am to Cell of Awareness
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My heart goes out to these parents
Mine doesn’t. They’re selfish pieces of shite if you ask me. Sorry your kid is retarded but that doesn’t mean you get to ruin every other kid’s education.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:12 am to Cell of Awareness
Money grab. A kid with that kind of disability would never succeed at a school like that, much less any school.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:18 am to Cell of Awareness
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As a result, they argue, the process violates state and federal protections for people with disabilities, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Louisiana Human Rights Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the federal law that gives students with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education.
My understanding is that as long as a district provides an opportunity within its district, they can't do shite about this.
So if the charter school is connected to a public school district, I don't see this going very far.
Otherwise the expectation would be that every single school in said district would have to be equipped to provide services for even the most medically fragile child and that's not humanly possible. For instance, in my old district we have students who attend a school (Churchill Park) who are extremely medically fragile. It has medical services built within the school to manage that. Same with Home of the Innocence (who has an incredibly nice, multi-million dollar facility). A regular public school cannot provide the services they offer such as an on-sight therapy pool for the child's occupational therapy services, doctors on staff, etc.
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Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:18 am to bayoudude
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Yep not all schools are equipped to handle severe profound children. My brother has a child with spina bifida and none of the local private schools can accept him. It takes specialized staff to handle these kids and if there aren’t enough enrolled to cover those costs it just isn’t feasible. Public schools have no choice but private can do what they want. Those people sound insufferable
it’s not a private school.
They also have a special ed program.
I think they also run a lower and middle school.
So at that point it get sticky.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:23 am to HeadCall
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My heart goes out to these parents
Mine doesn’t. They’re selfish pieces of shite if you ask me. Sorry your kid is retarded but that doesn’t mean you get to ruin every other kid’s education.
This is how I feel. frick them. They are trying to ruin the educational opportunities for other people's kids.
Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:32 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Why does it feel like these parents are using their disabled kid as a prop for a a performative lawsuit.
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Posted on 5/30/25 at 10:37 am to Cell of Awareness
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We are talking crumbs on most cases and far less than those private school parents pay for taxes that do not go to their schools.
Just in the case of ADA law, which needs to be rewritten, if they took one dollar they would be required to establish an IEP for a disabled child.
It is definitely not crumbs in most cases. All of those types of kids have specific aids that get paid 30 or 40k per year specifically for them. I have seen a particular case with a sped teacher and two aids assigned to one kid in his own classroom. That school district has to be spending 200k plus per year on that 1 kid.
Not every school is built to handle those cases and big districts funnel those kids to certain schools in the district. For some schools it is definitely better to spend the little extra money that they get on the gifted kids while giving the special needs kids attention at the schools designed to handle there situations.
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