As I understand it, the Ink Fund’s raison d’etre was to pursue equal rights for all. That is quite different from what happens with laws on “special education” and the ADA.

I respect that you will disagree with that, but from the source article, I’ll let Kelly Darr make the point for me:

Kelly Darr, a staff attorney for the Disability Rights Network, a statewide federally mandated protection and advocacy group, said that federal law and the regulations that implement it give special education parents an elaborate system for resolving disputes. “Those kinds of rights, at least to that extent, don’t exist outside of special education,” Darr said.

I think I’m getting an allergy myself, A. W.

“Special education” is largely a crock — yet another ill-defined, educrat-created industry that makes lawyers, social engineers and other hangers-on rich, gives everyone an excuse for everything and probably doesn’t result in much more by way of results.

Kids are deemed “special education” for being dumb, restless or any other perfectly normal — though disappointing — category. For this, they’re entitled to “special accommodation” that bankrupts school districts. Gifted kids go without. Art and music programs are axed.

It’s absurd. It’s more of America’s “Cult of the Defective”, where we lavish money, attention and affirmation on the abnormal, the lesser-skilled, the less-able.

A decent society would not shun or punish these people, but would not at the same time make a fetish of them. We’ve lost our balance here.

I am sure in the 50’s you would have complained about the NAACP’s Ink Fund’s lawsuit mill against segregation, too.

Anyway, my full reaction can be found here:

http://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2010/02/overlawyereds-jihad-against-disability.html