We Should Cut Special Education

[Sami]

It was basically entirely owned by her and the gov't would pay her for each person that was there so she tried to cram as many people in as possible with as few expenses as possible.

She ended up closing down and moving to Utah where there aren't any rules because the state caught on to her in 2005-2006 or so.

She was basically exaggerating the amount of care provided and saying she met requirements that she didn't really.

For example her license limited her to 8 people, but she had 12 so she adopted 4 of them as her children to stay at the limit.

Her license also required her to have a licensed nurse on call 24/7 in case of emergency but she ignored that and the state was terrified to enforce it, because she got the media out any time the gov't hassled her to say she was a victim of anti-Mormon bias or some bullshit like that. I admired her because she could always work the system in her favor, but damn was she crooked.

She was making about $2000 per person per month, and spent about $500 per person at the most, so $1500 * 12 = $18000 per month.

That's the profit margin at work.

[Javier]

There's not going to be a city or state out there that will accept drastic changes in the education system.  The best thing you can do is make small positive changes slowly.  The reason why I wouldn't be for privatization is because that assumes that competition is the only way to improve the schools and also that everybody would be fair.  Not everybody has that individualistic competitive nature.