Mar 1, 2019, Savage (MN) Pacer: Burnsville-Eagan-Savage adjusts to demands on budget, letter campaign begins https://www.swnewsmedia.com/savage_pacer/news/education/burnsville-eagan-savage-adjusts-to-demands-on-budget-letter-campaign/article_b6159890-a50f-592e-9c68-a98aaad508eb.html BURNSVILLE — The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District can continue ninth-grade sports and offering middle school orchestra while still making about $6.6 million in cuts to staff and athletic and academic programs for next school year, a district official said Thursday. Some district residents meanwhile have begun a letter-writing campaign to area legislators calling for more state money for special education and to districts in general…. District Superintendent Cindy Amoroso has said some severe cuts must be made because state and federal aid aren’t keeping up with special education and general costs and because of falling student numbers in recent years. Enrollment is about 3,000 students lower than 20 years ago with around 8,400 enrolled this year. … The letter asks the recipient to support three Minnesota Legislature bills — two that increase the per-student amount of state money for districts and tying it to inflation and a third that would cover a rising percentage of districts’ special education spending….
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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