The assault on parental responsibility and parental rights just keeps getting notched up. Parents of special needs children may have been in the trenches longer than anyone else, and the battle there is very fierce. They know they need to be their child's advocate, but finding the line between being an advocate and being a pain in the b*** seems to be very difficult. Unfortunately, at the end of the day the decisions appear to be made on the basis of money. With falling school budgets and the tight economy, the battle for money has become intense, and the children are the ones losing.
Take the case of Chuka Chibuogwu and the Alief Independent School District in Houston, TX. Chuka has autism and was in middle school when his parents, immigrants to this country, began asking the district to give him the
