We are parents, relatives, friends, and community members who wish to support our children with intellectual disabilities and have them grow into independent individuals with full and rewarding lives. We feel that this can best be accomplished by them participating in a co-op class during their highschool years and that NLSS has the ability to provide this course. They provide co-op to the rest of the student body so why discriminate against our children and deny them who need it the most?
It certainly does not seem that the employees of the school board realize that they have a job because of my children, which includes my son with intellectual disabilities. That their pay cheques are funded by my tax dollars. To be ignored or worse be patronized is discouraging but not enough to make us go away on this important issue for all disabled children in Ontario, and all citizens in the bigger picture.
