School options for children with disabilities

               Since 2004, Texas Education Agency (TEA) has lowered the number of students granted special education status. From a recent report, it stated that the TEA set 8.5 percent of the student population as the maximum for special education population in Texas. Texas has a substantially smaller percentage of special education students than the national average, and has smallest percentage of all of the states. In the 2013-2014 school year, Texas came in at 8.6 percent, while the national average is 13 percent. The number is decreasing because of the successful efforts to rehabilitate students who had been diagnosed with learning disabilities, but some current and former school administrates claim that they have to drop the student population to the set goal immediately by using alternative program which is less expensive. Schools push students out of special education to meet state limit. Many parents have taken their children with disabilities out of public schools in favor of private schools and home-schooling because they do not feel the needs of their child are being met by the school district. It is costly to send children to private schools and even lose the income of one parent to homeschooling. Therefore, Education Savings Account is one method that allows parents to have more options in choosing school for their children, especially low-income family.

            This is brief summary that was written by Dianna Muldrow on Texas Public Policy Foundation. As America, especially Texas, always focus on children education, the conditions of children with disabilities are needed to prioritize at all time. This commentary post is very attractive for readers at first by providing many detail numbers as evidence for the decrease of the student population with disabilities. Short brief summary on the topic was well written by the writer, and gradually shift to the main issue which voices up the options for parents of disable child to choose school’s options freely for their children. Muldrow does not let her thoughts and opinion expressing directly through this post. It is a good technique to not interfere readers’ thoughts. In sum, she concludes that as time goes on people do not know what will happen with special education students, but it is certain that many parents are not pleased with the educational support, and want to be able to choose school options freely for their children.

              Personally, I support the new policy and educational options which allow parents the freedom to find services that are rights for their children because parents are the only ones that know exactly what their children need, so parents deserve school options for their children. Schools do not offer a good quality education, why not the parents can deserve a right for school options.