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have any option but to approve the special education plan. She added, however, that the school board had adopted similar programs in the past "providing that funds are available."
Whether the funds are there or not, the state department of education is “still going to hold our feet to the fire to provide services,” Bloomer stated.
McDaniel noted that the school system may soon be called upon to provide even more services since there are currently at least two preschool handicapped children in homebound instruction for whom Rappahannock currently offers no adequate programs.
“We all have a great deal of difficulty living with the law for a free and appropriate education for all children from two to 21,” said Mrs. Massie. She added that, in her opinion, a lot of responsibilities were being pushed off on public education which could be better handled by public health or welfare departments. She acknowledged that services are needed for special education students but maintained that average and above-average children were being short-changed. "We’re not doing an adequate job of being all things to all people,” she concluded as the Board voted unanimously to approve the special education plan.
McDaniel later provided a break down on the 89 youngsters enrolled in special education programs as of December 1978:
—18 learning disabled students, the majority of above-average or average ability and intelligence.
— Nine developmentally delayed pre-schoolers receiving homebound instruction with the aim of preparing them for a regular educational program by the time they begin school.
— 20 mentally retarded students.
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