Today I had a tour of a New Story School in Lancaster Pa. Look them up, PLEASE ! these schools should be in every states in ever school district. Instead what happens is kids with extra special needs are sent to hospitals on a recycling way any time they act up because they know how to get that break from school, know how to say just what will put them in a hospital. So what happens with their education? It causes a lapse, and they get behind. Or they will be sent to a residential facility.
Keep your taxes in your own communities and demand to get a New Story where you live. Now, It doesn't have to be an actual New Story school, but a setting like new story in your own district in your state.
When schools have to send kids outside of the district to go to behavioral schools, your taxes will go up.
So support your schools by asking over and over again about implementing a New Story style facility within a building or building in your schools. This type of school has an autism feature and an emotional support feature. It also has an "apartment" set-up for life skills with a washer-dryer, bed, stove, fridge, kitchen cabinets, dishes and more. Students clean up at the end of every day. Their is a fun/game room, sensory room, an outside play area, a small gym, a small cafeteria and kids pack lunches so they learn to use a microwave, a stove and whatever they need to assist with a lunch. They can take snacks, but no peanuts. as many kids are allergic. Staff are readily available. I saw one on one and Tss's are allowed.
This is more than worth while. The High school piece-kids get to go to the grocery store and shop for their own lunch, using budgeting skills and I'm sure if parents can't afford that, there are other options.
Fight for this program. We also have many special teachers who are not valued enough who have worked with special ed kids and now not working. This would put every teacher back to work. Kids go a full day and parents are not called if kids need to be restrained to come and get them. The support staff handle this. It doesn't get any better for the kids who attend, the families who have these kids who need this kind of a school and the taxpayers who pay more to send kids out of the district to behavioral schools where mainly they just don't learn enough. They build football fields don't they? That's because football players are special kids. They build it on the school property. What about the kids who need to be,should be closer to home, and not have a 45 minute ride to go out of the district? Too bad they don't play football.
Keep your taxes in your own communities and demand to get a New Story where you live. Now, It doesn't have to be an actual New Story school, but a setting like new story in your own district in your state.
When schools have to send kids outside of the district to go to behavioral schools, your taxes will go up.
So support your schools by asking over and over again about implementing a New Story style facility within a building or building in your schools. This type of school has an autism feature and an emotional support feature. It also has an "apartment" set-up for life skills with a washer-dryer, bed, stove, fridge, kitchen cabinets, dishes and more. Students clean up at the end of every day. Their is a fun/game room, sensory room, an outside play area, a small gym, a small cafeteria and kids pack lunches so they learn to use a microwave, a stove and whatever they need to assist with a lunch. They can take snacks, but no peanuts. as many kids are allergic. Staff are readily available. I saw one on one and Tss's are allowed.
This is more than worth while. The High school piece-kids get to go to the grocery store and shop for their own lunch, using budgeting skills and I'm sure if parents can't afford that, there are other options.
Fight for this program. We also have many special teachers who are not valued enough who have worked with special ed kids and now not working. This would put every teacher back to work. Kids go a full day and parents are not called if kids need to be restrained to come and get them. The support staff handle this. It doesn't get any better for the kids who attend, the families who have these kids who need this kind of a school and the taxpayers who pay more to send kids out of the district to behavioral schools where mainly they just don't learn enough. They build football fields don't they? That's because football players are special kids. They build it on the school property. What about the kids who need to be,should be closer to home, and not have a 45 minute ride to go out of the district? Too bad they don't play football.
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