{"id":875,"date":"2005-06-19T21:48:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T21:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=875"},"modified":"2005-06-19T21:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T21:48:19","slug":"an_educational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"An Educational Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Star Tribune has another disability-related column<\/a>. I’m beginning to wonder if the Strib is controlled by some shadowy gimp cabal. This column discusses a local Catholic high school that declined admission to a student with muscular dystrophy, only after initially accepting him. Apparently, the school decided they could not accommodate the kid’s accessibility needs. It’s been a while since I’ve looked at federal IDEA law and I can’t remember what obligations it places on private schools. But I have heard of other stories of private schools turning away students with disabilities. Often, they simply don’t have the facilities and the experience to accommodate students with disabilities. But how do you reconcile that with the ideal that a student should be able to attend the public or private school of their choice, regardless of disability? The school mentioned in this article was built in 1932 and might not even have an elevator. They probably don’t have a paraprofessional staff trained to assist the kid with daily needs like going to the bathroom. Was it reasonable for the parents to expect their child will be safe and comfortable in such an environment? Or should the school be required to bear all the necessary costs of accommodating him?
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Today’s Star Tribune has another disability-related column. I’m beginning to wonder if the Strib is controlled by some shadowy gimp cabal. This column discusses a local Catholic high school that declined admission to a student with muscular dystrophy, only after initially accepting him. Apparently, the school decided they could not accommodate the kid’s accessibility needs. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-e7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}