tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post5853976627456501376..comments2024-03-28T06:53:24.022-05:00Comments on a blog about school: Speech is free. Regulating it costs money.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12919030671050831251noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-38822694008266364892014-02-27T23:16:07.163-06:002014-02-27T23:16:07.163-06:00At the alleged Special Ed Listening Post held by o...At the alleged Special Ed Listening Post held by our Iowa City Community School District last night (first one they've ever done and only done because curriculum review process requires it) it came up that there are not classroom environments in our elementary schools that actively recognize and appropriately accommodate, teach, and protect children like I was, my son, or other children with Asperger's...the high functioning kids on the spectrum who are intelligent but very vulnerable.<br /><br />We are the bullied: by other children, other parents, teachers, principals, School Board Directors, Special Ed personnel, District Administrators, and our school district. In fact here, you can even be abused and yelled at for the symptoms of Aspberger's/ADHD/Autism Spectrum by a board director from the microphone, during a public meeting of the school board, for the crime of having the symptoms of those diagnoses. This district sanctions, protects, and champions that kind of bullying...especially when its own board members set the example of how to do it unhindered and unpenalized, supported by media and other members of the public.Julie VanDykenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-75467159006470955462014-02-25T20:39:14.951-06:002014-02-25T20:39:14.951-06:00http://www.acluct.org/updates/waterbury-aldermen-r...http://www.acluct.org/updates/waterbury-aldermen-rescind-speech-restrictions/<br /><br />https://www.acluct.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/acluct-letter-120513.pdfMary Murphynoreply@blogger.com