|
Graduation Day
Today was Jeffrey's graduation from high school. He is 21 years old and state law only allows someone to be in the school system until they are 21, even with special needs.
Jeffrey graduated from a school for autistic students run by the county intermediate unit. He received two diplomas, one from his school and another from his school district.
Now he begins the next stage of his life. Most of the training for his transition to an adult he was entitled to as a student. As a graduate, he will get whatever support the state can afford. Unfortunately, I was speaking with our local state representative, who was at the graduation, and federal education dollars are drying up. Things were tight even before Iraq and Katrina.
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama
|
06-08-2006, 09:30 PM
Threaded Mode