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Lonestarblue

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13. Private schools can reject students that public schools cannot.

Reply to Ol Janx Spirit (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 11:27 AM

Mar 2025

Some private Christian schools may accept special needs kids, but I doubt that those run by the extremist white evangelicals will. Their Christian empathy seems to extend only to white heterosexual kids, especially the males who will be taught that they are the rulers of everyone.

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No Dept. of Education? Now who is going to help all those special needs students and their parents who ... [View all] Botany Mar 2025 OP

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Private Christian schools which they will now funnel tax dollars to in order to fill that gap. Ol Janx Spirit Mar 2025 #2

Private schools can reject students that public schools cannot. Lonestarblue Mar 2025 #13

They don't care. Dulcinea Mar 2025 #3

DUers are political hounds XanaDUer2 Mar 2025 #5

They may transfer those programs to another department like HHS MichMan Mar 2025 #6

How will they staff it with the cuts taking place Dan Mar 2025 #7

That's what I think will happen too. Combine them with another department. Special Ed, like most education, is Silent Type Mar 2025 #8

It doesn't work that way where I live InstantGratification Mar 2025 #10

This appears to be true in other states as well Tansy_Gold Mar 2025 #16

A LOT of the money comes from the feds Cosmocat Mar 2025 #14

Combining the Dept of Ed with another agency does not necessarily change funding. I get that is also a fear, Silent Type Mar 2025 #18

Wonder what percentage of DOE funds are actually distributed to the schools themselves? MichMan Mar 2025 #20

And they already shut down the Civil Rights division -- so consider it open season on minorties and women in schools JT45242 Mar 2025 #9

Plus nowforever Mar 2025 #11

Our coming patchwork-quilt nation... Fyrefox Mar 2025 #15

Best to check with countries like Somalia or Afghanistan to see how they handle it LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #17

I hope there's a HUGE movement to not pay student loans if the DoE is dismantled... OneGrassRoot Mar 2025 #19

People aren't jailed for not paying loans MichMan Mar 2025 #22

Answer: they don't care JCMach1 Mar 2025 #21

The lawmakers would need to destroy IDEA, and FAPE first. Passages Mar 2025 #23