Alpine School District has decided to pull the special education life skills class from Trailside Elementary. This same plan is being proposed District wide to pool the SPED classes and bus our kids to other schools. This decision has been made without adequate input from educators, the community, and the parents of the children with special needs. The survey that was given for us to weigh in was completely polarizing in favor of the proposal and most opportunities to answer the questions given, are met with manipulation to have our passion and love for our kids staying within the community school twisted to make it serve their agenda and proposal. The proposal clearly outlines the plan to pool our SPED classes at neighboring schools to increase “community” and “teacher collaboration”. When in actuality our children are being ripped from their community. The community where they have their neighborhood peers, their siblings, and those they see daily being taken from them, all to be brought to these schools and given a forced community made by the district with a guise of saying “this is what is best for our children”. Alpine School District actually failed to have the space to keep up with the infrastructure and growth that it is facing and are looking to make room for kids this coming year, with all day kindergarten and the high density housing that is continually being put in. Using the most vulnerable population as their solution with a guise of it being a “special program proposal” for the betterment of our SPED children. This is clearly discrimination of our children with disabilities.

Sign this petition to oppose the proposed changes to the SPED classes program and keep our children at their respective community schools! Our children with special needs and typical alike thrive off of having a community supporting them. This is a petition to actually share our voices and keep our SPED kids at Trailside and their respective community schools! All students deserve and need the opportunity to associate with, and learn from, children with special needs. Please give our community the opportunity to continue to understand and include children of all abilities.