It Takes Exceptional Thought To Lead

Cuts to Special Education budgets are shortsighted. People with disabilities make up the largest pool of willing and ready to work individuals, yet they are 70 percent unemployed. A cut on the front end of special education certainly spells a downward spiral in what is already a dismal position in a society that promotes itself on a strong work ethic.
Do we care? Shouldn't our leaders care and act appropriately?
In the last thirty years investments in special education students to spending on regular education students have declined.
Some will argue that spending has not gone down, but rather, school enrollment has gone up, as people with disabilities become more engaged in their communities, as is their right. This includes access to a quality education that can lead to the dignity of work for people with every type of disability—physical, developmental, sensory, mental, cognitive and intellectual.
And there are large companies, among them some subsidiaries of Walgreen’s, The Home Depot, supports athletes with disabilities to compete in the Paralympics, IHG-(InterContinental Hotels Group), WalMart’s and SunTrust Banks, have made it policy to hire people with disabilities, not as a matter of charity, but because they see clearly the value and strength gained in bottom line performance, output, profit and taxes. Special Education is about an investment in the future and a genuine uplift in real lives.
Exceptional leadership needs to have this understanding.
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