VB>  MS> This case will destroy parent support for public schools.
VB>  MS> Parents of "regular" kids will resent the fact that their family
VB>  MS> does  not have the same right to what amounts to a voucher to 
VB> attend
VB>  MS> the private  school of their choice as any parent lucky enough 
VB> to get
VB>  MS> his kid designated special-needs.
VB> 
VB>  LUCKY!? I would LOVE for MY kid NOT to be disabled! 
    You may see it that way, and in one way you are right, but the parent in 
a rural school district in the Dakotas where taxes are raised 50% for the 
benefit of only one kid sees things differently.  You can bet that overall 
public political support for public schools in that town went through the 
floor as a result.
VB>  make the broad generalization that special ed kids are stealing from
VB>  "regular" kids. That is what you and other folks are saying. 
    No, that's not what I'm saying.
    What I'm saying is that political support for public schools among the 
general public will inevitably be a big casualty of this law.
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