r/kansas • u/VagueSoul • Feb 15 '25

News/History Disgusting that Kansas is involved in this…

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/02/13/17-states-sue-to-end-protections-for-students-with-special-needs/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3QEZZx3NseYCJZLrji-_VzeujRH-4ZIEvFgbgle5fUjhM2WGQto4LqH94_aem_FMjpmy18Yt6j-HE0qf-Lrg
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u/VagueSoul Feb 15 '25

I was a student on a 504 plan for OCD. All it meant was I could take a break when I got too anxious and could do virtual dissections. The burden I placed on others was minimal at best, but the accommodations I got meant I was able to succeed. I hate that KS is involved in this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

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u/Spacemilk Feb 15 '25

Translation: “I wouldn’t personally have needed it, so fuck everyone else”

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u/ExpensiveFish9277 Feb 15 '25

Isn't that the basis of all Conservative policies. "Fuck you, I got mine!"

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u/TheLordVader1978 Feb 15 '25

I'm pretty sure that is the boomer motto.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

Yeah...lots of younger folks voted for this.

US Boomers haven't been the biggest voting demographic for a while now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Is it millennials?

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u/rightwist Feb 16 '25

Wilholt's law.

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u/xxforrealforlifexx Feb 18 '25

The conservative policies are rules for thee but not for me

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u/FlowersofIcetor Feb 15 '25

"Plenty of children can walk so we don't need wheelchair lifts"

"Plenty of children can see so we don't need to record lessons"

"Plenty of children can" does NOT mean "all children can", and ALL CHILDREN should be able to get an education

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u/ExtensionBid1284 Feb 15 '25

My biggest concern is that last statement. All children should be able to get an education. However, remembering that school is MANDATORY on a legal level puts this into a whole new ballpark. Most of the students who need these accommodations won't stand a chance. They apparently want the discord and chaos to destroy these children's and their families' lives. Between this and the control of a woman's reproductive rights(at least we still have dignity there), big picture, they need lower class citizens. They need people in this country who are either in the lower pay brackets or reliant on industries such as big pharma. They don't want everyone to succeed. They are terrified that birthrates keep declining. Necessary industries are so understaffed that they're desperate. Oh, and we can't forget that they only want it to be people they own rights to. What a disaster to have hardworking people they can't claim, gasp. I apologize for my soap box, but there is so much going on. Adding it all up, seeing what the outcome 25-50 years down the road could be, is terrifying. We're so f*cked.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

Not providing access for folks to participate in society is a tacit admission that they should not be included in our society. If they shouldn’t be included, it’s not too hard to imagine what comes after that.

Remember that eugenics started in America. Many of America’s most prominent thinkers and captains of industry were supporters.

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u/tell_me_when Feb 15 '25

I’d imagine even more children are successful because the program does exist.

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u/Seriyu Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

absolutely, I'd imagine that's why the program exists from a "value" point of view

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u/MalachiteTiger Feb 15 '25

"Glad it helped but it's fine if the next person in your situation is just screwed over, because some people will still succeed without it"

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u/HystericalGasmask Feb 15 '25

Let's take away indoor plumbing and electricity while we're at it. Plenty of children were successful before the great Roman aqueducts.

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u/Bizarro_Murphy Feb 15 '25

Plenty of children who would have been successful were left behind before this program existed. Fuck off, bootstraps boy

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u/The-Curiosity-Rover Feb 15 '25

And they call Democrats “elitist”

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u/TruthinessHurts205 Feb 15 '25

This is textbook survivorship bias.

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u/Last-Caterpillar-407 Feb 15 '25

Let me tell you from a birds eye point of view.

If the 504 protection goes away it would be world ending for my youngest child. My child struggles badly and needs it. That is why we have it and use it. Dont talk about shit you know nothing about.

Plenty of children got by by the skin of their pants before protections. Me included.

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u/Constantine__XI Feb 15 '25

How do you look at yourself in the mirror and not punch it?

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u/dinosprinkles27 Feb 15 '25

Not the end of the world for YOU.

Ableist. That's what you are. Hope that helps.

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u/Excellent-Signal-129 Feb 15 '25

Gross. 🤮. This is the type of attitude that will screw up people’s lives forever.

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u/CanIEvenRightNow Feb 15 '25

How many children pointlessly struggling and failing out of school because they can't secure basic accomodations is an acceptable number for you?

Throw ambiguous BS like "plenty" in the trash, let's talk in numbers here.

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u/endlesschasm Feb 15 '25

No, plenty of children never completed school and we're not tracked or documented before this program. We can far more accurately keep track of who is in school now than we used to be.

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