We Can Fix This System! Together! | ADHD Information

oldtimer (do you mind if I ask your name?)You said you wished all parents of Se kids complained, let's figure out a way to reach out to them. And not just them but the Se kids. The more support we can muster the better.

What is the Asd board? Who do you mean by they when you say they'll focus education on the majority? Se?I wish all parents with Se kids would complain. The politians I think care less mostly cause their kids all go to private anyhow. How about faxing the letters?I think it should change to help all kids cause they are the Adult future. Let's have the Asd board be included in this also.  

Sadly they will focus education on the majority not all kids.

My solution is focus on education help then the fun stuff.

The future is computers so I am hearing text book learning will disappear. It will all occur on this. Software could even rid teaching cause it will teach for ya. Some hs stuff you can get this way already.

I also think we have home things that will do it all for ya like the Jensons.

Just a thought to think about.

oldtimer38919.7516435185This can't be true! That's insane! They think that'll help? Dude I am so shocked right now. I can't believe that, it sounds like a skit from a late night talk show or something!

Auntie and Barb are right, we can't let this happen. I'm going to send a PM to Barb so she visits this post. Everyone has to visit this site

http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/06/abuse.nys.regs.htm#act

(I can't get the link to work. Highlight it, right click, copy, and right click, paste it into your wed address bar unless someone and tell me how to fix it)

I'm going to read it now. It's the Wright's Law Call to Action Plan. I'll write more after I've read it. Oh and PLEASE if you print it all out (it's 20 pages), the regulations that it, please do it front and back so that you only use 10 pages. There's no point in fixing the system for a brighter future for kids if we use up the oxygen supplies,

Thanks for the link and info. Auntie!

By the way my name is Skye. (knowing someone by a screen name is so... against the old days I wish I knew)Marley2436538919.5728587963Ann, tell your daughter to come on. We'll write letters to every single congress man if that's what it takes! lol. My Mom calls me a... little rabble rouser. I've got about fourteen years of fire burning under me.

I know how we should proabably start, with letters to our townships Board of Special Education. I think it would be best to have the same letter sent everywhere. But truth be told I don't know the chain of command. I know we start at the bottom and work are way up though (mostly to cover are own butts from them saying "well, we never heard about this, did you speak to Mr. is-too-little-to-do-anything?"). Tell your daughter I'm sure we'll get to the congress men and if she's on board with us if we go as far as the Pres then we get to burn him with "well, this lovely young lady wrote to you years ago, why did you not address it then?" LOL God I love being a rabble rouser!

Please, everyone, every single person can help!

Marley,

I think the first thing we need to do is not allow this to happen in the state of New York  because if it happens in one state you can be sure it will be picked up by other states. Barb brought this to our attention. Please read this thread.

http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=20619& PN=1

Wow you sound like my daughter. She tried to write letters to our congress men and other higher officials about no child left behind. They basically blew her off. A couple of them wrote her back but just told her that they could not do anything. She wrote to the president and did not hear anything back. I hope you get ideas and let me know how you make out.

Hey everyone.

In 2007 I'll be going to college, motivated by a personal experience I've thought I wanted to become a Veterinary Physical Therapist, but over the past... three years I think, I've learned just how messed up our (the USA) school system is. For eleven years my parents have fought against the school district to get me an equal opportunity education, and now for the last four years I've been working with them and becoming more of my own advocate. It took eleven years for me to get diagnosed with ADD and to get a 504 plan. To this day my 504 is not to my family’s satisfaction or enforced. The next step (or perhaps the step that was needed years ago) is to take the school to court, but for financial and stress issues, my family can't.

I live in South Jersey where the No Child Left Behind Law stands. But children are being left behind. They may be moving ahead in grades, but not in education (this is happening all across the nation). I myself have had to withdraw from classes or even retake them so that I could learn everything. This isn’t right. The fact that I have never seen a single post on this forum that someone is satisfied with their 504 or IEP is a disgrace. Children, parents, and even many teachers do not like how this system works. Well, can’t we change it?

There’s a lot of things in this world that aren’t right, aren’t fair, aren’t moral. There are a lot of things that we would like to change but believe we can’t. In truth, it’s a miracle that I’ll be graduating next year with an A/B average, that I’m going to go to college, even that I can process and drive without crashing, lol. My point is, yes, life is hard, no one has to tell me that, but what if we, as a unit, could just make that life a bit easier for our children and our children’s children?

I began writing this post to ask what I could do. What occupation I could pursue in the school system to make a difference for the specially educated, but now I’m asking, what can we do together? On this forum alone there are 11081 members. People (especially presidents) are always talking about our children’s futures, or our children are the future. Well, I say let us make their futures bright! Let us stand up for their and our rights! There must be ways for the system to be changed! I’m looking for ideas here. I’m looking for each and every one of you frustrated and pissed off parents or AD(H)D people! Instead of simply writing our complaints on here to 11081 people to read, let us bring them to the attention of every single American! Single persons throughout history, Ghandi, Bob Marley, even Hitler (you can’t say that even though his actions were terrible, that they were not great), were heard, imagine how loud a voice of 11081 will be! Please post ideas! Anything from the Chain of Command of Special Education to petitions to protests! For too long the school system has been broken! For too long children have been left behind! We can change all this!

Thanks for the websites, I swear if anyone puts their grubby paws on my child I will kill

http://speakout.com/activism/tips/

http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/06/abuse.nys.regs.htm#act

I got your pm Skye but I need time to think about what we can do. I'll get back to you. In the meantime, these are the links you couldn't get to work.

I've found a spot that's really gonna help us out, Wright is awesome!

http://speakout.com/activism/tips/

there's 10 tips there for activism and links.


Man, I've been doing this for half the day. I have to go. I've got 20 pages of... Regents to read. Our first step (besides taking action against this insane regulations on behavioral interventions) is to decide what exactly we want to ask our congress men.Marley2436538919.5802430556