Letter to the Editor

December 6, 2016

Mail Houston Chronicle, Letter to the Editor

P.O. Box 4260

Houston, Texas 77210-4260

To the Houston Chronicle Editors:

Can special education allow students to meaningfully inspire deafening and beating TEA’s cold, callous dealings to lower the number of students in special education? Your article, “Denied: How Texas keeps tens of thousands of children out of special education”, published September 11, 2016, systematically revealed what many of us as students have been through painfully. Now, I have nonverbal autism and it definitely tends to hinder my amazing intelligence and needed belief that every student is able and intelligent in their marvelous, amazing potential. Having belief in inspiring intelligence can break the barriers to having equal education in the general education setting or special education setting. Many special education students are not getting their services they need due to the defiant TEA’s mandate to meet money savings. Believing in amazing healing and to have support in learning education can bring happiness and meaning to students with disabilities.

First, I have been through the public school system and I can attest to having heard teachers talk about meeting numbers to lower the number of students in their special education classes. The teachers believed we could not understand because of our autism. That insensitive belief has been hard to swallow. This is intolerable and wrong generating callous, insensitive denial to keep many students from accessing special education services. Therefore, casting aside our children has detrimental effects.

Second, there are some who say having a disability is costing too much money having an impact on school budgets. I agree that education can incur higher costs for those who have disability but common sense behooves us to use better judgement in amending our way we see those with a disability. Therefore, I completely disagree with those who gregariously flock to that type of insensitive statement. We cannot put a price on education for all.

Finally, there is financial loss to denying many students. Many great families are desperate and shamed into hiring legal services to fight for their child. Have we made learning a commodity to only typical students? This defies human decency and respect.

In conclusion, I am living proof that Texas is being malicious in denying every tender student equal opportunity in services making cause to bring action to the forefront. Consequently, I was denied the use of my communication tool here in Texas and I was made to leave the public school system to now attend a healing private online school called K12 International Academy. We must take action now and needed belief in our civil rights. Great belief in equal services and education for all becomes amazing happiness. Write to your state representative today about this injustice.

Sincerely,