Blog Stage 7

In this article found on Texas Tribune South Texas parents share their frustrations on the lack of financial and educational support they receive from school districts with their special needs children. As of this year Texas has one of the lowest education rates (8.1 out of the 8.6 standard) I found this particular article interesting since I am from the Rio Grande Valley as well. The article mentioned that one of the advocating parents had to go to the private school in which her son was enrolled in three times a day to change his diaper, *clears throat* THREE TIMES A DAY. Come on guys. That is insane. If I enrolled my dog into a private doggy school and I had to leave work to go walk him three times a day because the staff wasn't properly trained to take care of that for me, I would be infuriated!! Now speaking in terms of finances, some parents raved about how this specific program isn’t receiving enough financial support because the district is distributing it to different areas in the budget. The article didn’t explain why they were convinced of this, but this could probably explain why Texas can justify for having $60 million high school football stadiums. Another problem area i’d like to touch base on is the fact that one parent who attended the meeting shared the difficulty in expressing her whole thoughts since there was a language barrier and the district would not invest money in having a professional translator. I feel that is a primary example of why Spanish speaking parents don’t get too involved with their children’s academics  in the first place.