One of my students, a kid with some serious problems with verbal communication, has finally receive some assistive technology from his base school system. Unfortunately, the kid graduates next week, at which point all of this expensive equipment they’ve provided will be taken back.

Yes, this kid who’s been in our school for the past seven years has only just now, in the past two weeks, received some useful assistive technology.

Sometimes, the bureaucracy and ridiculous red tape of the public school systems just makes me sad.