The topic that I found this week that relates to my topic of the new regulations that are being put into our education system is the expanded rights for students with disabilities. As a student I do not have any learning disabilities, although I am a family member of someone who does. I have watched them struggle in an educational system that lacks support for kids with disabilities. It is not fait that due to lack of funding he can not get the most out of his education and is often looked at as a bad student. In the article “Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities” by Lauren Camera, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, explains the issue of not having the right support for students with disabilities. The one he mentions is “For children with disabilities, receiving an instruction that aims so low would be tantamount to ‘sitting idly … awaiting the time when they were old enough to drop out’”(Camera 2). Which I agree with as students feel that they are just constantly being put down will cause them to have no motive and feel like they aren’t good enough for school. Even when they are put into these specialize classes for there disabilities it makes them feel as if they are isolated, a form of victimization. They are required to follow these goals that are made at the beginning of every year, but most of the time the goals are the same from the previous. When families started to only see little improvement they wondered why their children are only receiving “merely more than de minimis” (Camera 2). It’s like they aren’t being offered a way to challenge themselves because they are only offered to do what they are told due to a diagnosis. As the article states, “Judge Gorsuch endorsed the lowest of expectations for students with disabilities, which allowed public schools to provide our highest-needs students with the bare minimum educational benefit”(Camera 2). Which clearly shows that he doesn’t expect much from disabled students just that they receive some education to survive that could allow close to no benefit when going to higher education. I hope that this new rule is put into place to advance the requirements for the educational outline for disabled students does work in all the school systems.
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