>I agree that not everybody can send their kids to a $50K per annum private school, which risks elite Sneech behaviors and disparity.
In NJ, public school costs/non special needs student/year range from $8K-$43K.
Special needs kids costs are insane. A couple of kids could go through Yale for the annual cost of educating one special needs kid in NJ.
The public school system just doesn't work anymore.
The reasons are numerous, but the first step is to acknowledge it.
The next step is to remove all federal funding and get the feds - and their mandates- out of the picture.
The notion that someone in Washington DC can set educational policies for someone in Oklahoma is whacky.