By: parent of deaf child

parent of deaf child — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:39:23 +0000

Any candidate running for Governor will have a big problem left behind from Rendells cut backs in education. Thats for the deaf students of Eastern Pennsylvania. Governor Rendell took a line Item for the Scranton State School for the Deaf from the current lack of a settled budget. After 130 years this Governor got to decide that educating prisoner is more important then providing a basic one for the deaf students of Pa. To make things even worse the Department of Education in junction with the Governor brought in a charter school. This private charter school will charge more to property tax payer throw raising the cost and provide less for the students. By closing the residental programs for the students that travel long distance’s and cutting out the Hight school program in the Scranton location after June 2010. But they have offered to bus any student that wants to attend one of only two High School programs in Pennsylvania to the Pittsburgh school. The other one in Philly doesn’t offer a residental program so the students would have to travel from Scranton area to Philly daily. Now last time I checked Pittsburgh is still 300 miles away a 6+ hour ride on a bus. He will have to leave his home around 8am on a Sunday and returns late Friday night after 9pm. With out Weather issues or traffic problems. This gives us about 12 waking hours a week with our son. My wife and I would have to do all apointments and family evens on Saturdays in that 12 hours. This is not even acounting for school events. Gas up the mini van thats a 12+ hour round trip. How can this be an adequate and appropriate Free Education in Pennsylvania? What was Ed Rendell thinking? Or was he????? The bigger question, the Department of Education there supost to be helping our childern with a Free and appropriate and adequate Education. The Deaf commuitte needs someone to stand up and help these students with a High School program in the North East and mandate something to the New Private Charter School or restore the old program that was providing the needs of all the deaf students under one roof for less to tax payers and the state. If House Bill 1318 would have been reveiwed the truth would have came out, the state was providing an education for less.

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By: parent of deaf child