Local School Districts Ignore Law, Sets Great Example for Students
Nice example you’re setting Jenks, Union and Broken Arrow. Since your school districts feel that you don’t to need to follow the rules, maybe your students can decide which rules they want to follow.
Several local school districts voted against following a state law that requires public schools to provide funding for special needs students to attend private schools.
Tulsa Public Schools, Owasso and Bixby originally decided to ignore the state law, much like how I ignore the woman outside QuikTrip who needs a dollar for gas to get home so she can feed her baby, Crack.
Those districts changed their mind and are now complying with HB3393, which is odd because if it something makes sense, they tend to do the opposite.
The last I checked, school boards don’t supersede state law, the courts or the Oklahoma constitution. I could be wrong.
Now, if you can pick and choose your rules of civic engagement, the students should be able to pick theirs.
First, students skipping school should no longer be an offense. The U.S. frowns upon kidnapping. No one should be held against their will. Ask any blond Caucasian abductee.
Second, smoking. It’s relaxing, calming and can add a nice shade of yellow to the walls. Who doesn’t want calm students set in a room where fluorescent lighting reflects off stained walls for a skin-smoothing candlelit glow?
Finally, teacher stabbings. Self defense on the students part.
See, it’s easy to choose what rules you want to follow.
As educators, I would think the school districts would want what’s best for their students. I doubt that students with special needs will succeed in a class filled with 30 or more classmates. School districts forgot this when they laid off hundreds of teachers.
This simply comes down to money. They don’t want to share. Their funds are better spent on sports equipment and high-paid administrators who would fall into fetal position and soil themselves upon entering a classroom.
If public schools are concerned about money, how about fewer $100,000 a year positions … oops, that would make sense.
Yet another reason to be happy I left Oklahoma.
Get’em IT.
I think everybody should be allowed to not follow laws they don’t like. Personally I don’t like paying for my drinks at QT. It doesn’t cost them that much just to give me one or two drinks a day so why should I pay? Its not right. They can make it up on everybody else.
Missed you and I hope you are back for a while.
You need to check on our mutual girlfriend Baloney of That’s Baloney. She’ll talk to you, she won’t have anything to do with me any more.
She’s not talking to you. What did I miss?
Now that’s just a bunch of nonsense. I clicked on IT’s website because I haven’t seen anything in a while and I fine a fantastic post and Yogi’s crazy comment.
On January 19th I was doped up on heavy duty pain meds beginning a recovery for shoulder-surgery-from-HELL. So there.
IT – come back to blogland!
And yes, the school districts are ridiculous. It’s amazing we have any teachers left.
Soon. I’ll be back soon.
That was “FIND” a post – not “FINE” a post.
More nonsense.
Why should the school district have to pay to send a special education student to a private school when, at Broken Arrow at least, they have a fantastic special ed program? I understand why the parents would want to send their child to a school with better special ed resources if the public school has a sub-par program, but it’s unfair to force an already budget-strained public school to pay for a child’s private school tuition when a suitable option is available in their own district. Yes, it’s silly to just flat-out ignore a law, but I stand behind their decision.
It’s not about the law itself, it’s about the example the school is setting by deciding which laws to follow.
All the OK public schools get additional funding for kids that need special ed. The law was designed so that the money would follow the child (who it’s meant for) rather than the school (who was being paid to provide adequate special ed in the first place). That way, there’s more incentive for public schools to improve their special ed programs if they want to keep the extra bucks, or more options for parents to get their kids the education they need if the school can’t provide. If a public school has a comparable special ed program, parents would much rather keep their kid there for free rather than send them to a private school where the tuition is merely subsidized rather than paid for in total.
They do need to follow the law. What they need to do now is get rid of all of their special needs programs in their schools. They will be paying for them to go elsewhere anyway, right? So save some money there. Also, cut sports programs – these students need to focus on academia. But I guess pizzas don’t deliver themselves…
Did I miss something? If they don’t believe the law is valid legally (because our ridiculous legislature overstepped their bounds most likely in trying to invalidate the constitution) their recourse is to not follow it and let the state defend the law in the court system.
What do you do when a state passes a law that is unlawful? I would likely obey the one that makes more sense, which is likely the one that wasn’t passed by the Oklahoma House. Nothing to see here except some BS posturing by our elected officials, but then again, that’s not new.
Tons of people left Oklahoma in the ’30s to go to California. Where would they go now? Anyway it’s all along the lines of ‘pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.’ Those disabled kids need to try harder and be not disabled… CLEARLY.
Is this thing done or what?