Helping parents help their children

From time to time we get requests from parents for money so they can bail their kids out of a bad education situation. Usually, the child has some sort of special needs and is drowning in his current setting, but sadly SQE has no money to help these kids. Until yesterday, all we could do was suggest that they move to Arizona where the parents of special education students can get about $10,000 from the government each year to spend on their children's education - for example, to pay for private school tuition, therapy, or tutoring. 

Now, we can suggest they move to Arizona OR Florida - because last Friday the governor signed into law a similar program for Florida special needs students. more

This would be so easy for the Ontario government to do. For one thing, it would save money - since the government currently spends more than $10,000 per year on the province's special needs students. For another, it would make the parents of special needs students very happy (and likely to vote for the government come next election). Thirdly, it's the right thing to do because it would give a hand up to some of the province's most vulnerable citizens.

And lastly, it would be wonderful for SQE, because then we would have something to offer the desperate parents who call us and cry over the telephone.

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