Why Special Needs Students Want School Choice | 5 Minute Video

Most schools for the deaf are shutting down because you guys were cutting funding. you did this.

I don’t think school choice is a solution to this major problem In matter of fact I have a disability and went to both public and private schools. I was denied basic accommodations in the private schools while I received better treatment in public schools. Hence, the problem is in the teaching methods not the system at large (which we can all agree has massive problems).The solution is simple abolish “SPED” classes and support inclusion programs where all students are able to be in class together no matter if they have a disability or not. That way everyone benefits even people who have not been diagnose with a disability but nevertheless have one.

Wow, a Prager U video I actually agree with. I partially benefitted from public school remedial resource but I would have benefitted more from a program geared to my actual disability: a program that didn't penalize me for penmanship, for example.

As someone who was in the special needs program I relate to this a lot. I was lumped together with other students despite the fact that we had very different issues. I remember being around kids who would get so angry that they did some wild stuff. A couple of them got naked infront of the teachers once the class evacuated, one of them cussed out the teacher, some of them threw a chair or a desk at a teacher, some of them made were violent.

One day I was at recess during kindergarten and a teacher told me that I shouldn't have a jacket on when it was hot, I remember the material was thin enough to where it wasn't bothering me so I nodded my rejection. A moment later I was looking out of the yards fence, and this kid gave me a bloody nose out of absolutely nowhere.

Before 2nd grade I would hide under the table when a kid was throwing a tantrum and I only befriended the kids who had social issues, ADHD, ADD, or dyslexia because they weren't completely out of control. To some degree there was a sense of comradeship but there were also those that I would classically call a retard or they were kids you usually don't want to be around. We all had our issues but if we simply were segregated into our similar academic abilities and interests than it would be far better than what it is now.

I can't tell you how many times a kid would get angry and everyone had to leave the room for about a half an hour and we couldn't do anything but stay in the hot sun. It was pretty cool sometimes because we got rewarded in very few scenarios depending on the rest of the classes behavior, and it's pretty funny looking back on it, but it also reminds me of how much of a joke education is anyway.

So, only special needs students should get school choice? ? ? That doesn't seem quite right. In fact, that seems a bit . . . well, you know. How about every student (or really, their parents) should get school choice.

ALL students need school choice.

I don't know what to add to this, but I am commenting because more people need to see this. School choice is important for many reasons.

I went to three different public schools. All three failed me. Online schooling saved me.

" no one sees this better than I do." Now THAT is powerful.

your speaking my langauge

I'm autistic, although I wasn't diagnosed at 18. I received my education from a normal school, and I was at the top of the year. Many special needs students thrive in a normal school environment, but some can thrive better in an environment with more help, especially autistic students. The smartest people in history have all been autistic. Some autistic people just need help to achieve their full potential, which can lead to them achieving far more than their non-autistic peers.

why so we can bring black kids to white schools? stop desegregation

I'm Pro-Choice for school choice!

In the UK ALL STUDENTS (not just SEN kids) can choose which school to go to

Here in the UK we go to the school that the government assigns us up until the age of 10/11 and then you get to write a list of schools you want to go to and they go through your list from first choice down and as long as it has a place you should get in to that secondary school, i got my 3rd choice which was Ok. The only rules are that if you have to take a bus to school you must pay for that bus (unless you have a disability in which case they provide a taxi) and that the school you choose must be in the county you live in (unless you have special needs and specify a reason for going to a school in another shire)

I live in Forsyth County Georgia.
We do not have school choice for elementary and middle school. But in high school, they allow the students to pick their school
It is weird and confusing especially for eighth graders like me who have to choose what high school they are going to.

WRONG! Most of these charter schools get away with tons of illegal things related to special needs programs. They have no accountability so are in constant violation of sped laws and don’t give sped kids the help they deserve

OK but this is literally not a solution i know because i'm physically disabled and this happened to me advocating for private schools to take tax money would make this problem worse because i literally did not have the money to go somewhere else, you guys hit the problem right on the head but your solution is an anti-solution, i don't even understand how it would help, you got the problem perfectly but the solution is to restructure public school so what happened to me never happens again not just assume disabled people can afford private schools especially when you don't support subsidized income for the disabled i literally would go from getting a bad abusive education to having no education under this proposition, i wouldn't get a choice anyways, i do appreciate you guys bringing attention to the problem but your solution would help very few people especially disabled people of lower incomes

The loony left hates people with disabilities, pure and simple.

Truth is people like school choice. They just don’t understand it especially on the left where they opposed because the Trump administration supports it.

prageru:
i speak for the special needs students
special needs libtards:
am i a joke to you?

If i was blind i woud be happy that i cant see any horible things in this World cough new sonic movie, but i woud be sad that i coudnt see any great things like the mt Everest (btw if somebody sees this comment and tells him about this, i have question what woud you give for your vision?).

Wait this just a question, but how do you play golf when your blind?

One thing i cant under stand is why are teachers unions against choice for students? I just dont get it. How does choice for students affect teachers?.. The only thing i can think of is that normal teachers dont want special kids in there class because teachers fear that the special kids will give em hell. But weather thats true or not. I dont see that as an excuse.

Update: Well. Im gonna go back. It came to mynhead but back then. When i was in middle school, i was in a place called issaqua. Now i had a bad case of ADHD, also i was loud. And out of whack. But the thing about issaquah was it was a wealthy place. Yet they were eletist like for wealth. And all the time teachers and princible like figures, not all but most would want to put me in special ed. Specificly the the special ed for kids who had no future. Were at teenager age, theyd need to be put on a wheelchair or couldnt speak or would droul. And as i kinda relize. I was a thing of worck for teachers. And when I see teachers according to prager u not wanting choice for student. I kinda relize that those types of teachers are selfish sloths who dont want to put in effort for those kids. That they just want there job as easy as possible. And the same thing was happening in issaqua. And my mom wasnt really that wealthy wich made the staff at the school try to discriminate against us big time. Apparently if you have no bling. Your just a leech. Or in there eyes. And they trieid and treid to put me in the special ed. Diagnosis ing me with autism. Even at one point they treid diagnosing my mom with it. That ended up getting the phsycoligist fired and replaced who was almost no better. Then at april. I got checked by an actually phsycoligis. And it turns out. I got ADHD. But the point i want to bring is the reason teachers dont want student choice or union teachers dont want student choice is becasue they do want to put up with disabled student. There selfish. Lazy. They dont know what its like to be dissabled or have adhd. And its dissgusting. The wage thing is one thing but limmiting students choice to make a job easeyer. Macking them do a class that there bound to fail. Dissgusting. Those type of people should not allowed to be teachers. There to selfish to be handling the future of a child.

I'm a student with Autism who lives in affluent Rockland County, New York. The worst days of my public school education were in elementary school because I was stuck in special education programs where I was stuck with children who had zero verbal ability and was far behind my peers in social, emotional, and academic skills until I switched elementary schools in third grade to a special education program with children more similar to me. Now I'm a high school senior expected to graduate with 33 college credits from my local community college since I go full-time; high school was crap and not that many people liked me there, probably because most of these kids are a**holes. I also made friends in college that I would've never made back in high school. I honestly wish I went to private school during the late 2000s when I was younger.

Democrats just don't want you to be smart, Jake. They would rather you wouldn't have had the education to make this video.

I wish I could “like” this video more than once. I have a child who is cognitively impaired. I put our child into the public school. She has not been able to pass very simple standardized tests including the ASVAB test and Accuplacer tests to allow her to enroll in the most basic math/English courses at a local technical training college.

Yet, my daughter received honor roll status at her local high school with a CORE 40 diploma. Her educators assured me she was learning and “fine.”

I am now in the process of quitting my job so that I can teach her Algebra I-Algebra II level math over the course of this summer. This is the only way she will be able to attend her technical school. In one week, we have discovered that she doesn’t understand basic pre-algebra concepts.

Will I be compensated for quitting my job and teaching my daughter? No. Will the school system receive all the funding for not educating my daughter? Yes. Have my tax dollars gone to these institutions that failed my daughter? Yes.

If you want to help special needs students, let their families decide where the funds are allocated.

I always get so excited when y’all do videos on school choice bc I’m homeschooled :)

They let you ‘play’ competitive sports? You sure it’s not a treadmill in a public park?

Truth is the Left also likes school choice. They only have a problem with the name school choice because the Trump administration supports it.

I am severely dyslexic, and was forced to attend regular, public schools in the Anoka-Hennepin School District. I was in the EBD program, but I was not diagnosed with dyslexia until one month before I graduated because my IQ was so high, I just took it upon myself to figure out ways of avoiding reading entire lessons so as to boil reading assignments down to just what I needed to know to get a B or a C in most of my classes. When I was finally diagnosed, my doctor sent copies of a letter to my case manager, my school counselor, etc. None of them believed him because they figured my IQ was too high for me to be dyslexic. I have always had a lot of behaviors that can ONLY be explained by a dyslexia diagnosis. So, I don't know what the feeble education and psychology degrees of the faculty at my high school were supposed to have on my specialist medical doctor who diagnosed me. Leftists are about as smart as bricks. Having tested in the superior intelligence range, I still sucked in academics, in part, because my brain damage prevents me from thinking in abstract terms. They don't write math textbooks in all story problems that I can see realistically applying to my life. The first time I understood algebra was after college, when I was trying to figure out something to do with my paycheck. I wish I had dropped-out of high school, right at the beginning, or at least had been given an alternative to the high school I went to. High school was not fun for me; it was highly stressful. I'm STILL so stressed-out by the ways people treat me -- on the sidewalk, at Wal-Mart, at restaurants, at Church (ANY church), EVERYWHERE -- that my belly is almost as big as both my legs. And while I do have short legs compared to my overall height, it's NOT AT ALL healthy. I'm a dead woman walking. I'm SUPER-BLESSED to have been found by a VERY high-quality man who loves his woman big, but he lives in what is, possibly, The Most Humid state in The Union. And he lives RIGHT BY the Texas border, where they have those gosh-awful ticks, whose bite causes an allergy to all the best meats. I don't know that I can handle being anemic 'til menopause. But I'm sure I'll die young. Since I tend not to get stuff, and because I have a very BAD tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt even when they don't deserve it, I'll probably be murdered before too long.

I am going to be in special education just because I don't freakin like TALKING TO OTHERS well I talk but don't like talking to others in classes like talking to students even my friends so the teachers are doing this to me.

So what you mean is you are giving a chance for kids with disabilities (like myself) to go to private schools, therefore segregating ourselves from the majority of students in public schools??

I am a freshman student in high school and I have depression, aniexty, sleeping issues, and more I do not get along with most of the people in my school I only truly get along with others that have the same interests as me, and some of the people that do like the same things as me. They hide their interested and they hide that they are my friend.

"No one sees this more clearly than I do"

Kunk all of them!

You go to the same school like me thanks for this friend

I have autism. I graduated from a two year college with high honors, two honors societies, an honors study program where I travelled on academic business to present a book I'm writing. I have a background in art therapy and studio arts. I'm 25 and back in college working on a third degree, a bachelor's in communications to become a public speaker.

This video is lying 🤥 to y’all. Public schools are bad for special needs kids not because of anything inherently wrong with public education.
-special ed resources in public schools are severely limited due to lack of funding, with schools denying kids accommodations in order to remain fiscally responsible within there budget.
-private schools can and will refuse to provide special needs accommodations.
-low income families who HAVE to use public schools will NOT(contrary to what the video says) benefit from cutting themselves off from tax money from people who do not use the public school system.
*Everything I have said comes straight from experience within and outside the education system.

Generally, I like Prager U videos, but I am skeptical of the wide application of what is being said here. I have been a special education teacher for over 25 years and I can say that what was described isn't legal. Maybe his school district lumped all special needs kids into one setting because they are ignorant and/or poorly funded, but generally I don't believe this is true across most school districts. Blindness is a category that that has it's own special setting because of the unique needs of that person. It also comes with what are called low incidence funds for the added equipment, materials, or instructional specialty that it may require. It would be very unethical to place a student with normal cognitive functioning in what is called Specialized Academic Instruction, which is for students who have disabilities that affect their cognitive or processing ability.

Further, the law requires each student be placed in what is called the Least Restrictive Environment. That is to say, the setting closest to general education. For a student like Jake, that would likely be general education with push in services from a teacher from the Visually Impaired program and whatever additional supports are necessary for success in general education. General education and being educated with one's peers is always the goal. Finally, where a student is placed and how services are delivered is a decision made by the the members of the Individual Education Plan team, including the parents. The parents have almost all the say here. The laws in both the federal and state statutes that govern special education are heavily weighted to favor the family - and they should be. The parents have tremendous power here and they can pretty easily demand and get private services for a student when the district cannot provide the proper setting. All of this is paid for by the school district; it's not like they need the resources to hire an attorney. The way this works is so heavily weighted toward the parents it's almost comical.

Oh, and as for the teacher's unions. Our local along with CTA and NEA like to respond to us with, "we don't understand special education". Believe me, the unions, CTA, NEA, and so on don't really care about any teacher. They only care about collecting our dues and being able to say things like: "California teachers support...". They have never asked us what we support or care for. They only care about their left-wing policy and social issues agenda. That's their real cause.

Respect

Same for black kids stuck in crappy union schools.

Having money go to home schooling is a very very very bad idea! There's many that will pull thier kids out of school to collect the check. And there's no way you can monitor if the children are learning or being abused till it's too late.

There's literally poor able students that get terrible education where they can't take higher classes bc they aren't even available

How TF do you play golf?

"No one can see this more clearly than I do"

Is blind