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Sped and the Superintendent

The Superintendent visited the Special Education SCPTSA last week. 

Just broadly, the Superintendent was given a lengthy intro - not by PTA folks but by Nicole Fitch, SpEd Director, then Juneau stated some platitudes and then had one interesting statement about leaving the "technical" knowledge/work to Sped staff.  I would certainly not expect the Superintendent to know all Sped issues inside out but I certainly wouldn't expect her to deflect a question in that manner.
Per the Strategic Plan, there are some basic questions from Sped parents:

• What is SPS doing to ensure equitable access for students with disabilities?
• How are they ensuring that students with disabilities have equitable access to their neighborhood schools? 
• Or what are they doing to ensure students with disabilities being included in extracurricular activities?

It can't be stated enough that, for many Sped families, just trying to get their child's IEP fulfilled is a near full-time job. So their free time for advocacy is limited to a much higher degree than other parents.

I had intended this post to be longer but on the way to doing that I got waylaid by a couple of people in the small swarm of naysayers who protect the Superintendent. 

I had asked at a Facebook page, where I read the account of the meeting, if I could use quotes without names.   I asked this:

So, if I didn't use names, could I use direct quotes from here? Or should I just summarize what the general feeling seems to be from the quotes about the Superintendent's visit?

Most people did not want to be directly quoted (as I suspected) and some didn't want any of their wording used.  So I said sure.  What is above is very broad-strokes writing about the meeting.

And then in comes a couple of the swarm beating me over the head about minding my own business and (basically) to stay in my lane (which is odd because SPS is my lane). 

I mention this because, as I warned the Sped parents, if you do not toe some written/verbal line, these people in this swarm will come for you next. The goal is to shut down, by any verbal means, any discussion about the goals, strategies and initiatives in this district.

So if many parents are getting a beat-down from a few parents determined to snuff out all discussion, then Houston, we have a problem.

One person said, "We need communities working together." To which I say, Good luck. Because you have a superintendent who is definitely NOT a person who is working to unite this district, either in her actions and her wording. 

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