An IDEA for millions!

IDEA, not just a thought? It's an action. An action put into law in 1975. These individuals had an idea like no other for the future.
What did it entail? Who was it for? Students with disabilities. It demanded that public schools serve those special individuals with disabilities with educational needs. Everybody deserves the right to an education. Everybody.

Moreover, It gives students of special education a more main stream way of education. Without IDEA, parents and teachers of special education students would have no IDEA how their child/student is progressing. It's to be known always. From experience with students with Disabilities, students take an IEP assessment test from what I remember and continue on to have IEP meetings with parents and students. This is such a good way to know where the student is. My special education class I mentored was high on the learning realm. Not only did they have class which included math, reading, and writing, but they were also taught life skills. Cooking was a class they had, I was with them during Computers, and they also had physical education. All of these things are essential for the upbringing of a child with special needs, and with IDEA, it only gets better as time goes on!

Through the national center for learning disabilities, they describe IDEA as the following:

" IDEA requires that schools provide special education services to eligible students as outlined in a student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP). IDEA also provides very specific requirements to guarantee a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment (LRE). FAPE and LRE are the protected rights of every eligible child, in all fifty states and U.S. Territories. IDEA requires every state to issue regulations that guide the implementation of the federal law within the state. At a minimum, state regulations must provide all of the protections contained in IDEA. Some states may have additional requirements that go beyond the federal law. Many states offer handbooks or guides to help parents understand these state-specific policies and procedures."

 http://www.ncld.org/disability-advocacy/learn-ld-laws/idea/what-is-idea

I picture IDEA as a basketball team. 5 players on the court, and they all have one common goal, to get it in the hoop and win the game. Does that not relate to those students with disabilities? Aren't they after the same goal? We all want to be high achievers, and that can be done through IDEA. Like basketball, we want to score with education. We all want equal oppurtunity, especially those with special needs and disabilities.