To tell our government officials to vote NO on House Bill 610, which is trying to redistribute funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers. This would essentially diminish funding for special education, scholarships for low-income families as well as the school nutrition program, and redistribute those funds to charter schools and homeschooling needs.
Why is this important?
This Bill would be incredibly detrimental to our children and society as a whole, but especially to those who need our help the most, our disabled children (2 million kids). There would be no more IEP's, no more OT's or PT's in schools, no more special ed teachers, no more reading programs etc. They would be the first to go with this Bill. With Autism on the rise in epidemic proportions, we are now going to make it that there would be no more regulations/rights for these kids? As a person personally affected by this bill, as my son has Aspergers/ADHD- my son would NEVER be able to perform in school successfully without supports. But with supports, he gets A's and B's. Autistic kids are brilliant- they are usually the ones who create the most ingenious creations necessary for our society to grow, i.e. Silicon Valley. Do we really want to stop that innovation for some short-sightedness?
