Grandfather Georgia SB10 Georgia Special Needs Scholarship

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   Name: Christopher P. Cliver on Mar 10, 2008

   Comments: Please help these children and their families

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   Name: Kimberly Omark on Mar 11, 2008

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   Name: Ita Dore on Mar 11, 2008

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   Name: Kirk Dore on Mar 11, 2008

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   Name: Beth Brock on Mar 11, 2008

   Comments: Please add clause SB-10 to the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act! thank you!!!!!!!

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   Name: Debbie Ruda on Mar 11, 2008

   Comments: I feel children with special needs who would qualify based on SB-10 criteria should be able to get tuition funding as well even though they were not at a public school. It is not fair to only offer this to public school children

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   Name: Kimberly Lipscomb on Mar 11, 2008

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   Name: Troy Lipscomb on Mar 11, 2008

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   Name: Cyndee Thomsen on Mar 11, 2008

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    Name: Cyndee Thomsen on Mar 11, 2008

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    Name: Lori Sheffield on Mar 11, 2008

    Comments: Yes, we need this. My son has a tramatic brain injury from a car accident. He needs more help that we can not afford.

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    Name: Joe Sheffield on Mar 11, 2008

    Comments: Our son is a traumatic brain injured child who appears to be normal on the surface, but he has special learning disabilities with memory and managing emotions. We had to put him in private school due to his specific demands. We want to be grandfathered in the bill so we do not have to go to public school for a year, when we know what a disaster that would be. The private school students are very tough on our sons disabilities and we do not want to subject him to a large public school which will have less safeguards for him.

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    Name: Diane Ledbetter on Mar 11, 2008

    Comments: Please help the children and families who were unfairly disqualified from this bill.

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 11, 2008

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    Name: Geoff Marott on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Julie Collins on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Patricia Sheffield on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Donald T. Sasso on Mar 12, 2008

    Comments: I am in favor of this amendment to SB 10.

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    Name: Mels Carbonell on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Judy Chapman on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: John Parrish on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Kynda Boudreaux on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Juanita Cox on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Larry Carter on Mar 12, 2008

    Comments: I support the petition.

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    Name: Lisa Ganes on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Randy Keith on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: David Wesley Kilgore on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Robert Halperin on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Eric Jackson on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Helen Buttimer on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2008

    Comments: My daughter was adopted at the age of 9 through GA foster care. When she started middle school, we decided to place her in a christian school in hopes of providing a firm foundation for her future success. We pay for the private tuition and the special tutoring. To take her out of the private school, enter public school & then back to private school just to get the $$ cause thousands of dollars in doctor appointment (which state pays for) to work through the adjustments. If our daughter was in the public school....the state of GA would be paying thousands of dollars every year for the various special arrangements......yet, when we place her in a christian environment - the only challenge is learning disabilities......; at least we are not trying to deal with the social behaviors. Children with special needs AND involved in the Adopted/Foster care programs are truly at-risk.

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    Name: Nancy Mather on Mar 12, 2008

    Comments: Please help us support our children. Can you imagine how over-crowded the schools would be if we DID put our children back into your public schools.

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    Name: Sandy Terilli on Mar 12, 2008

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    Name: Ross Cooper on Mar 13, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 13, 2008

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    Name: Jascha Sheffield on Mar 13, 2008

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    Name: Angela Sheffield on Mar 13, 2008

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    Name: Cynthia Craig-Wolter on Mar 13, 2008

    Comments: I am a substitute teacher in the Fayette County schools and have seen first hand the problems that many of these special needs children face everyday in public schools. Some do very well but for those that do not and where the school system is unable to provide for them, I feel that a private school is a perfect option. It not only helps the child but also the school system and in particular the teachers who are now free to concentrate there limited lime and resources on children that they are better equipped to teach. By allowing all students who are or were special needs to get vouchers is very important. The current bill is discriminating against the children and parents that were more proactive and have already found a private school that can better meet their child's needs. Please amend the current bill to include all children that meet all the criteria except for the date they were pulled out of publc schools,

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 13, 2008

    Comments: I had to remove my son from E.T. Booth because of bullying and speech impairment problems. We just made the deadline by just a few days. I had not heard of this bill until last summer and was able to take advantage of it. It has been a BLESSING. My son has done fantastic in his new school. His whole attitude has changed toward school. He has gone from doing 4th.grade work in the 8th. grade in public school to being in the 9th. grade and actually doing work at his grade level. He loves his teachers and is always commenting on the extra effort put towards helping him. We all love it!!! Everybody in this situation should be able to take advantage of this. I have heard some parents say at the school that they will be enrolling their children back in public school for a year to take advantage of this bill and to do that will really hurt alot of children who have really come along way. Please consider this for them. They deserve it.

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    Name: Mark Day on Mar 13, 2008

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    Name: Annette Day on Mar 13, 2008

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    Name: Marc Ramdeen on Mar 14, 2008

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    Name: Greg Bligh on Mar 14, 2008

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    Name: Kim Bligh on Mar 14, 2008

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    Name: Marta Orraca on Mar 14, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 15, 2008

    Comments: equal opportunity.... hello...

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 15, 2008

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    Name: Pam & Joel McClure on Mar 15, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 15, 2008

    Comments: I think that since Josten Sheffield has a serious medical condition it would probably be detremental to his health to put him in a public school setting. Also it puts an extra strain on the teachers to deal with a medically limited child. He and others like him should be grandfathered in due to medical reasons.

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