Between 2001 and the present.....
1. How many impartial due process cases do you think were decided in Northwest Ohio?
2. What would you estimate to be the ratio between the number of decisions
favoring parents and the number favoring school districts?
Hint:
http://webapp2.ode.state.oh.us/exceptional_children/p
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
History Happens
Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010
Howard Zinn, unorthodox historian and author of A People's History of the United States, died yesterday.
Zinn's perspective on history made the majority of his peers uncomfortable because it challenged conventional thinking, assumptions, and conclusions.
Significantly, Zinn believed in "the eloquence of ordinary people" and sought to "bring to light little known voices from U.S. history".
http://howardzinn.org/
A People's History of the United States Harper & Row; HarperCollins, 1980 (1st ed.) 2003 (more recent ed.)
Howard Zinn, unorthodox historian and author of A People's History of the United States, died yesterday.
Zinn's perspective on history made the majority of his peers uncomfortable because it challenged conventional thinking, assumptions, and conclusions.
Significantly, Zinn believed in "the eloquence of ordinary people" and sought to "bring to light little known voices from U.S. history".
http://howardzinn.org/
A People's History of the United States Harper & Row; HarperCollins, 1980 (1st ed.) 2003 (more recent ed.)
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
It Got Me Thinking.....
I've been thinking about __G.'s story, where a school district proposed transporting the elementary school student to and from school in a mail truck ...
G's story illustrates two important things, at least.
First, this child was never actually required to travel between home and school like parcel post, because her parents (1) were able to obtain qualified legal representation, and (2) filed an administrative complaint and prevailed in an "impartial due process hearing" [here is where I'd like to insert a link referencing Special Education law & regulations]
The second important point to her story is that it illustrates the viseral nature of community attitudes and embeded biases with respect to disability. In other words, makes you wonder just how much so-called progress and enlightment reflects simply a growing sophistication, the trend to cloak discriminatory intent with inclusionary rehetoric, and the abiltiy to get away with substituting "appearance" for substance when it comes to real tolerance, acceptance, and equality.
Oh, and justice.
Suggested Reading:
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
Susan Schweik, New York University Press, New Your and London www.nyupress.org (c) 2009
G's story illustrates two important things, at least.
First, this child was never actually required to travel between home and school like parcel post, because her parents (1) were able to obtain qualified legal representation, and (2) filed an administrative complaint and prevailed in an "impartial due process hearing" [here is where I'd like to insert a link referencing Special Education law & regulations]
The second important point to her story is that it illustrates the viseral nature of community attitudes and embeded biases with respect to disability. In other words, makes you wonder just how much so-called progress and enlightment reflects simply a growing sophistication, the trend to cloak discriminatory intent with inclusionary rehetoric, and the abiltiy to get away with substituting "appearance" for substance when it comes to real tolerance, acceptance, and equality.
Oh, and justice.
Suggested Reading:
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
Susan Schweik, New York University Press, New Your and London www.nyupress.org (c) 2009
In 1881, the Chicago City Code read, "Any person who is diseased,
maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed... shall not... expose himself to public view." These "ugly laws" began in San Francisco in 1867, then spread through the U.S. and abroad; many in the U.S. weren't repealed until the 1970s.
http://www.nyupress.org/
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Hit & Miss : Trial & Error
By default, I suppose I have become the systems administrator or blog moderator, assuming I’m using those terms properly, for purposes of Project Promise and/or the Promise Foundation.
Please bear with me, as I try to get a handle on all this. It’s very new territory for me, and I remain a bit intimidated especially when encountering “net-talk”….i.e. URL, hhtp//, java script (which, apparently has nothing to do with coffee).
BYW, Angie, thanks for the feedback and encouragement. Can’t wait till you’re actually a follower too.
One thing I am still not getting is ….links & how to write and use them, which is important because we will want to reference other sites and information.
AND, please tell me, what exactly does …>,a href=””> < /a > < blockquote> mean, anyway?
Maybe we need to think about finding a little assistance with this kind of thing.
A Little About Formats
The Promise Foundation now has a Facebook “page” and a “blogspot”. I am unsure about the older website, and how that plays into all of this.
Although I managed to include the Promise Facebook page in my own groups, I remain unsure about how to proceed from there. One thing I do like about the Facebook page, is that it provides discrete sections, i.e. the “Wall”, “info”, “boxes”, notes and the ability to add new tabs, but I am still exploring how they might be used for purposes of the Promise Foundation, as discussed earlier this month at the Kurtz Enclave.
The blogspot looks promising too, but I am really struggling to understand the underlying systems. It does appear that when I post something on the blog, like this here….
a copy of it is sent to my own email. But, I wonder if that applies to all followers?
In the meantime, I think it’s important to kept inching forward, and
describing the Promise Foundation—it’s mission, vision, goals & projects—
for others as well as for ourselves.
Please bear with me, as I try to get a handle on all this. It’s very new territory for me, and I remain a bit intimidated especially when encountering “net-talk”….i.e. URL, hhtp//, java script (which, apparently has nothing to do with coffee).
BYW, Angie, thanks for the feedback and encouragement. Can’t wait till you’re actually a follower too.
One thing I am still not getting is ….links & how to write and use them, which is important because we will want to reference other sites and information.
AND, please tell me, what exactly does …>,a href=””> < /a > < blockquote> mean, anyway?
Maybe we need to think about finding a little assistance with this kind of thing.
A Little About Formats
The Promise Foundation now has a Facebook “page” and a “blogspot”. I am unsure about the older website, and how that plays into all of this.
Although I managed to include the Promise Facebook page in my own groups, I remain unsure about how to proceed from there. One thing I do like about the Facebook page, is that it provides discrete sections, i.e. the “Wall”, “info”, “boxes”, notes and the ability to add new tabs, but I am still exploring how they might be used for purposes of the Promise Foundation, as discussed earlier this month at the Kurtz Enclave.
The blogspot looks promising too, but I am really struggling to understand the underlying systems. It does appear that when I post something on the blog, like this here….
a copy of it is sent to my own email. But, I wonder if that applies to all followers?
In the meantime, I think it’s important to kept inching forward, and
describing the Promise Foundation—it’s mission, vision, goals & projects—
for others as well as for ourselves.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Looking ahead
Here we will begin to describe & rough out some of the "stories" that we want to share-- the stories that someone really needs to tell. For example:
In the "Sometimes, they just don't get it Department" >School District proposes to transport Downs Syndrome student to school in the mail truck, to eliminate need for her to travel on regular school bus with peers.
In the PWD/nos >Josephine Zraik had no physical limitations, fit and intellectually sharp, yet was devestated by "disability" throughout her life. First, when her youngest daughter, Christine, was removed over protest from her home and family by "the state" and sent to "Orient", an institution for the severely imparied. Josephine often spoke about the day a county worker finalized the placement for Christine and cautioned her mother not to think of Christine "as your daughter anymore".
>Subsequent stories about Christine are much more upbeat. One is about a trip to Columbus to buy her shoes, when she refused to try on anything but red shoes in the most expensive department store in town. Which, naturally, her mother gave in and purchased for her.
>The second "disability" wave hit Josephine when her adult son was blinded in a workplace accident. After breaking the news to Josephine, the doctor then designated her as the one to tell her son he would never see again. >>
In the "Sometimes, they just don't get it Department" >School District proposes to transport Downs Syndrome student to school in the mail truck, to eliminate need for her to travel on regular school bus with peers.
In the PWD/nos >Josephine Zraik had no physical limitations, fit and intellectually sharp, yet was devestated by "disability" throughout her life. First, when her youngest daughter, Christine, was removed over protest from her home and family by "the state" and sent to "Orient", an institution for the severely imparied. Josephine often spoke about the day a county worker finalized the placement for Christine and cautioned her mother not to think of Christine "as your daughter anymore".
>Subsequent stories about Christine are much more upbeat. One is about a trip to Columbus to buy her shoes, when she refused to try on anything but red shoes in the most expensive department store in town. Which, naturally, her mother gave in and purchased for her.
>The second "disability" wave hit Josephine when her adult son was blinded in a workplace accident. After breaking the news to Josephine, the doctor then designated her as the one to tell her son he would never see again. >>
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