I oppose these changes because it takes away the parents right to be a full participant in their child's education.  This law would allow the school system to offer less services.  The services provided by the school and scarce already we don't need them reduced more, we need the services to be improved significantly if we expect our children to succeed. 

The proposal also eliminates speech therapy and occupational therapy for these children.  I believe this is very unfair, what about the FAPE - ending speech and occupational therapy is also ending the child's appropriate education.  These children are not getting the appropriate amount of speech and occupational therapy they need, to eliminate them would severely reduce their ability to become productive citizens.

I am also disappointed in the public schools because they no longer (at least in the area I live) offer summer school for these children.  These children need this extra educational experience to retain what progress they have made throughout the school year.  No summer school makes them lose what they learned during the school year.

The schools should implement ABA or Lovaas style of learning, if they truly want to help those with developmental disorder to reach their full potential.

Public schools are more interested in their sports program than their academic program, especially academic program for special needs children.  Us with special needs children, want the best for our child and our children deserve FAPE as much as any other student.  It is time that our schools realize this and start educating our children appropriately.

Schools need to stop the custom of starting classes for special needs children 30 minutes later than general students and dismissing them 30 minutes earlier than the general students.  By doing so they are losing 5 hrs per week of valuable education time, 30 hrs during the 6 week period, 90 hrs for one semester and 180 hours per year of valuable instruction time that would greatly benefit our children with special needs.    And then the school won't let them have summer school to make up these 180 hrs during the school year that these children have been denied their education.