{"id":2877,"date":"2004-05-08T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T08:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2004-05-08T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T08:41:22","slug":"drinking-the-g-school-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"DRINKING THE G-SCHOOL KOOL-AID"},"content":{"rendered":"

These parents<\/a> have so bought into the g-school myths, that they are willing to subect their autistic daughter to this:<\/p>\n

In order to attend school, Chelsie requires a para educator, an adult who can be with her at all times. The person needs a strong personality, must be able to interact positively with Chelsie and know how to use her communication system, Kim Jay said.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of last school year, there was a para educator at Shoemaker that the Jays liked. She was a friend of theirs outside of school and they felt she handled Chelsie well. When the para educator was fired, Chelsie was devastated and, although the school provided another person immediately, the trust Chelsie had developed with the previous para educator was gone, Kim Jay said.<\/p>\n

She testified she’d been able to observe the new para educator working with Chelsie and was unhappy with the lack of interaction she witnessed.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the second para educator was fired.<\/p>\n

Chelsie missed several days of school last school year as well as this fall because of the family’s dissatisfaction with the para educators. Kim Jay said they worked with the school over the summer on an education plan that included hiring another para educator and easing Chelsie back into school by having her attend for a few hours a day. Kim Jay also went to school with her daughter for awhile to help train the newest para educator on how to work with Chelsie, who has a tendency to run away.<\/p>\n

After two more para educators failed to work out and the partial day schedule also failed, the Jays [temporarily] pulled Chelsie out of school completely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They didn’t want to homeschool her because she has socialization problems. Geez! The parents were found innocent of the truancy charge against them. In the court of public opinion? Guilty of stupidity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These parents have so bought into the g-school myths, that they are willing to subect their autistic daughter to this: In order to attend school, Chelsie requires a para educator, an adult who can be with her at all times. The person needs a strong personality, must be able to interact positively with Chelsie and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}