Game On

Dallin Paul Look­ing Good

Con­grat­u­la­tions to my youngest brother Dallin Paul who grad­u­ates from high school today. After high school, many stu­dents with dis­abil­i­ties are offered the oppor­tu­nity to to par­tic­i­pate in some type of post-high edu­ca­tion pro­gram. Dallin Paul is grad­u­at­ing with an excep­tion­ally large cohort of peers in spe­cial edu­ca­tion and because of poor plan­ning on the part of the school dis­trict his options for a post high edu­ca­tion have been severely limited.

Long story short, the school dis­trict picked the wrong fam­ily to try and place a stu­dent in a con­verted gym for a class­room with lit­tle oppor­tu­nity for com­mu­nity involve­ment or inter­ac­tion with any nondis­abled peers. If any­one from the school dis­trict is read­ing this, did you not real­ize that the Phillips fam­ily has mul­ti­ple Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion degrees, a Master’s degree in Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Coun­sel­ing, Part of a Doc­toral degree in Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Coun­sel­ing and a Juris Doc­tor­ate? On top of that we have a com­bined lot of years as teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors in spe­cial edu­ca­tion and direct care of per­son with dis­abil­i­ties. Game on.