According to a study from the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, about half of the nation's children who suffer from traumatic brain injuries are placed in private settings. Private-sector institutions are providing education for the mentally retarded, the autistic, the deaf and blind, and those with orthopedic impairments as well. Some of these institutions decline government support, but many do not. Roman Catholic Church organizations alone operate nearly 200 schools throughout the United States specializing in educating children with disabilities. It's you against the world.
Parents get tired of fighting.
And, says Bushnell, parents sometimes worry that the adversarial relationship with the public schools will affect the quality of care the schools give their child. The Reason Foundation report quotes another home-schooling parent, Devorah Weinmann. She went through hell and back to become fairly secure. She would just be shuffled along until she failed. A report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy is now helping to tell it.