A Litmus Test

Subjecting yourself, your child
to an inadequate plan, a failure of law,
of implementation, or fiat at its worst
That we must submit, turn loved ones
over to the well-intended; but wrong
to let them suffer a failed plan
even for a day. Impossible.
That can’t be the measure of our law
the rights so long held dear
Failing FAPE without feeling
Submitting to failure
cannot be the answer

October 4, 2007 12:45pm
Oral Arguments, Board of Education
of the City School District of the City of New York v.
Tom F., on Behalf of Gilbert F., a Minor Child, 06-637,
October 1, 2007 (1st Monday in October)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/06-637.pdf

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