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Submitted by outlaw on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 8:03pm.
Where: Traditions Cafe If you are a Special Ed student, or you have a child in Special Ed at Capitol High or Olympia High, please come to this event-- End Special Ed Forced Labor Now! The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing all forms of slavery, was ratified in 1865. The Fair Labor Standards Act, establishing basic rights for workers, was passed in 1936. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, guaranteeing all children a Free, Accessible Public Education, was passed in 1975. The nation’s first state-level special education law was passed in Washington in 1978. The Americans with Disabilities Act, protecting people with disabilities from discrimination in state programs and services, was passed in 1990. Why then, in 2008, in Washington’s public schools, are special ed students forced to work as janitors and groundskeepers, for no pay, with no training and no protective gear, under conditions only considered acceptable for general ed students who are being punished, while their parents are told lies, if they are told anything at all? Join us at Traditions Café, Monday 1 Dec at 7 pm, to learn the answer to this question, share your story of special ed slavery, and join the fight for the rights and the dignity of our young sisters and brothers, as students, as workers, as human beings. Sponsored by the Cascadia Center for 5th World Studies and the Olympia General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Submitted by Just another voice on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:14pm.All public school students are "forced" to do free labor. It is called community service and more people should try it. Service learning is a great program that benefits the community while teaching the students to care about something more then themselves and a paycheck.
When you call volunteer work, for credit or not, slavery you are making absurd comparisons. Perhaps you should do some research into slavery to truly learn the conditions slaves lived and worked in and compare this to the work environment these students work in.
But I am Just Another Voice
Does "service learning"
Submitted by outlaw on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 2:04am.perhaps
Submitted by chad360 on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 2:08pm.Perhaps not all sites are as good as the one described, and I shy away from the alarmist tone in the PR message (too centered in us VS them).
I have seen the success of
Submitted by Just another voice on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 2:30am.The service learning programs provide on-hands training for future jobs for students with disabilities. This is not about forcing labor, it is about giving kids real world training. After high school, most of these students will not have the opportunity to attend any higher education, and it is important they receive support and training within the high school environment. Some of these jobs may not seem flashy and interesting to us, but for students with different abilities, being a part of the campus recycling programs or helping set up or break down events and other minor roles on the campuses may make all the difference after high school.
Could our special ed programs use help? Absolutely. Our school system needs more staff and funding across the board!
I sure hope the folks that come to your event also take the time to actually volunteer in those classrooms, instead of speculate as to what goes on inside them.
But I am Just Another Voice