Motherhood is such a wonderful and sometimes exhausting gift!~
We just finished the last official season of the Oprah Winfrey show.  it’s id the official end of an era.  orpah has inspired many.  Her final show inspired me.  She spoke of gifts and of platforms.  She spoke of human obligations.  She sopke of blessings.  She might have used some slightly different words than I am choosing.  I am speaking of my own interpretations of her words.
From what i have learned, we all have gifts …or talents that are given to us …

The absolute worst way to improve educational special needs inclusion policy is to decide to exclude a special needs child who is also dying.
The school district that I am dealing with has decide to do this very thing.  There is a little boy in our district who has been given only a few short months to live.  The school district has decided to not allow him his only request in his last days…to be able to attend school.

I went to a recent seminar whose topic was centered around successful special needs inclusion.
The man who was the teacher was the parent of a couple of children who had special needs.  He had worked in his own district and several other school districts to facilitate a system for successfully including all children in the districts.

children at bus stop
Here in our neighborhood elementary school, Isaac is the first little boy with Down syndrome to be allowed to be in the classroom with other children his age.
The vast majority of children with Down syndrome are sent to a different school.  The school is a different elementary school inside the district.  They spend their school days in collected in a classroom that is away from the regular children.
Isaac had unique learning needs.  He has his own unique learning style.
But so every human being!
Right now one of the …