You talk about private schools serving the disabled and disruptive. We seem
to be talking about vouchers for private school education, so I will make it
plain that I do support them. And I will agree, along with all those other
conservatives, that you can't force a private school to take any kid against
their will. It's not private anymore if the State makes decisions on their
enrollment. What I've always figured you could do with this issue is to
increase the amount of the voucher for disabled kids. If you paid more for
a kid that's disabled than for one that isn't, I'm sure there would be
private schools willing to take these kids.
This is the point, isn't it? If there was more money for the public schools to pay for services for these kids, they wouldn't need to go to private schools to get out of public schools that aren't serving them. This is why the whole voucher discussion is absurd.
Diane Wiley, Powderhorn, kid at Seward who needs services he ain't gettin
