A Missed Point By Any Other Name is Still a Missed Point

Dot 1 Click here: Motel Special Ed: Voucher Fraud - Imagine that

"Fraud is wrong. They were given money by the state to provide a service. The money was to pay for the services they were to provide. But they took the money and used it for something else. In other words, they accepted the money but did not provide the service.

I wonder if the fact that it was a voucher program is why they were arrested."


Dot 2 Click here: Motel Special Ed: Old news is still bad news, but how many know it?

"According to a HCDS state complaint dated July 18th, 2005, “82% of the students surveyed by the state had not received the amount of OT services as stated on their 2004-05 IEP. 64% of the students had not received the amount of PT services required by their 2004-05 IEPs." The report states: "The student records reviewed by the Bureau indicated a systemic violation regarding the provision of OT and PT services to students with disabilities during the 2004-05 school years.”

"What Happened to the money?" .......

Dot 3-Click here: Motel Special Ed: A Teacher who knows the reality.

...."what choice does a teacher have when they know ......... is incorrect based on the needs of the child?"


....."In the same above case, what choice does the teacher have when the parent is or becomes knowledgeable about the issues of....."

"Does the teacher have more of an ethical dilemma for one of the two scenarios, or is the ethical dilemma the same for both, or is there no ethical dilemma at all?"


Connecting the dots. Are we retaining teachers by providing them an honest work environment or are we driving them away because we are clever in ways we save money?

Read my related post on Click here: PRO on HCPS: Sacred Cows and Unwritten SP&P's.