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Individualized Education Program
The program would facilitate the documentation and maintaining of the Individualized
Education Program for each special education child. Most importantly, the group would
call upon experts within the membership to donate their time developing the software,
setting up the hardware, and training the people who would use the system.
__ It was an exciting challenge, but I never expected
the story that would unfold six months later.
 __ Upon arrival we were greeted at the gates of Kittridge
school by Rosalie Bell, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, for District C of the school
system. Arrival at Kittridge was in itself, for me, a wake-up call for our public
K-12 schools. The scene was a well used, graffiti stricken facility, encaged and
subdivided by chain-link fence with pad-locked gates. This particular school is located
in one of the county's more poverty-stricken areas, where 99% of the children are
second language speaking, and 100% are enrolled in the free lunch program. To say
the least: a severe contrast to my local K-12 schools in Virginia's rolling, rural
piedmont region.
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