Oh my sweet sweet summer child….
I assure you that you one thousand percent have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Do you have a child with special needs? Do you have an intellectually disabled child? Do you have a child who needs a one-to-one para? Do you have a child who is still in diapers and will possibly never be independent toileting? Do you have a child who may never learn to read? Because those kids are rejected from that “helpful” list you posted. I know this because I’ve looked into many of them.
Aaaaaaaand almost all of those schools don’t provide all the services special needs students require. Apply to a private school for special education and find out. They may have speech or possibly OT but what about everything else? Ding ding ding, that’s right, they use itinerant services through SLPS or SSD. Because there is no possible way for a private school to provide all the services a single child with special needs has to have. Their business model is to take tens of thousands (some of those schools charge over $30k a year, highly doubt the scholarships will cover the entire year of tuition) and farm out what they can’t do to public schools for free. And what if you do enroll your child in one of those schools and they don’t provide the education your child needs or your child is too much for them to handle? You have zero rights. Your kid is not their problem.
Those schools are just fine for some people, if you don’t believe in inclusive education and are fine with segregating differently abled learners. But they cater to very narrow subsets of children. The ones who truly need the most help, and coincidentally require the most costly resources, will be the ones hurt the most. As usual. Our ableist society would be happy to pretend they don’t exist.
