As usual, with Republicans, cruelty is the point of whatever they do. The latest case in point comes from the swamp lands of Florida, where the Board of Education voted to make life impossible for some of their students who have the greatest needs:
The Florida Board of Education voted to sunset certificates of completion for students with disabilities who attend K-12 schools in the state. These certificates were awarded to students who couldn’t complete the coursework needed for a diploma.
Under a new Florida law, HB 1105, and the board’s vote, students with disabilities will no longer be able to get a certificate of completion at the end of their school career, starting this year. Students with severe disabilities who can’t earn a standard high school diploma, will leave school without any formal recognition upon graduation.
Without those certificates, some of these children are not going to have any chance of success for life. They won’t be eligible for jobs, or even vocational or developmental training.
The Florida Board of Educations is just to ignore these kids while they pay attention only to the children they feel deserve it by not having mild disabilities or no disabilities.
A mother of a young man who had benefitted from the certificates of completion asked and then answered her own question about why Florida would do such an inhumane thing:
