Edwin - congratulations on your successful advocacy. Hope your son enjoys!
So whether a child gets a proper education becomes purely a function of their parents' persistence. That is so illogical and frustrating, and harms children who have parents who do not have the resources (financial, psychological, intellectual) to pursue the fight. Sigh.
This reasoning is the kind of thing that lead to homeschooling for us. Every child should be educated appropriate regardless of how many hoops a parent is willing to jump through and how loud they're willing to be. Many families just don't have the time or energy to fight long or hard enough to get results. I personally know kids who suffer for these reasons and it drives me crazy.
