[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: wa2egp at att.net
>Date: 2007/04/16 Mon PM 12:53:01 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

>> >Imagine being in a district where one high school has the same percentage but
>> >increase it by an order of magnitude and most of the others are not far behind.
>> 
>> That sounds very, uhm, "special" (and yes, in a short bus kind of way...)
>> 
>> Lionel
>
>I don't know whether it's because the student actually ARE special needs
>or is it a way to get more money out of the state....
>If it's the latter.....that's sad.

In my district, our total aid from the state doesn't even cover our special needs students. TEACHERs, on the other hand are enthusiastic about finding "mild" needs students, as once they collect enough in the classroom they get an "Aide". Of course, they don't want them too "special", just enough to qualify...

Lionel