Breaking Supreme Court rules NYC has to reimburse parents for private school

[RB TexLa]

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court has affirmed a ruling requiring the New York City school district to reimburse parents who enrolled their learning-disabled student in private school after deciding public schools were unable to meet the child's needs.

[truebrit71]

1. Good.

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[DU9598]

2. Bad

They should order public schools to accommodate disabled students, not send our tax money to a religious schools which claim that they can accommodate the child.

[Johonny]

6. I agree

The next logical step is a parent demanding the public school pay to send their kid to a private religious school because by law the public school can not accommodate the child. The state paid for "for profit" schools are off and running. Yeach.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. THAT is exactly where we're headed!

:(

[JNelson6563]

3. Here's what I have a problem with

I believe disabled kids should be able to attend school and the Federal Government believes so too, hence the federal mandate that public schools do so.

Where the snag comes in is that it is an UNfunded mandate. If I remember correctly the fed only provides maybe 15% of funding. With school districts struggling (here in Michigan times are very tough!) this is quite a heavy financial burden to already struggling districts.

I think it's high time the fed kicked in a substantially larger amount toward this noble effort.

Julie

[cali]

4. Yep. This is part of the reason that Jim Jeffords

quit the repuke party.

[JNelson6563]

9. Wasn't that a great day!

I'll always admire him for taking that stand at that time. Made him a lot of enemies.

Julie

[cali]

10. Yes. I actually know that it made him very sad

but he always knew how beloved he was back home.

[bbgrunt]

5. how long before this becomes a precedent for ANYONE

to declare that the public school system does not adequately address their child's needs and then demand reimbursement?

bad. very very bad.

[madfloridian]

7. Think of all the implications.

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Scary.