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Per KT's request: xposted from CapitolAnnex, with a couple ofchanges at the end.
When people with disabilities and politics meet, it is a touchy subject.
When millionaire voucher advocates are so desparate to get a "leg up" for their pet projects as to exploit the needs of handicapped children, you know they are in dire straits. (See a post of mine from yesterday , where I discussed this).
Nevertheless, this is a subject that must be addressed and I'll tread as lightly as I can.
The long and short of this is that State Sen. Florence Shapiro (R-Plano), has announced that she will push legislation to let the parents autistic children pick what schools their children attend with-you guessed it!-the help of taxpayer funded school vouchers.
This is perhaps the most dangerous of all the voucher plans that has been proposed to date. Why? It is, for lack of a better word, "warm and fuzzy." Who doesn't want to help children who suffer from this terrible condition? What lawmaker wants to see a mailer sent out in their district that says, "Your Senator voted against kids with Autism." It's a hard bell to unring.
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