@othingstodo_com 70’s-We rode our bikes to the IA river to swim. We would stop at the store,buy a tab & some candy cigarettes. My cousin(6)&I (5)were dropped off at the movie theatre. $1=ticket, popcorn & drink. After,we’d wait outside until someone would eventually pick us up on Main St.
@othingstodo_com My mom would send us outside and then lock the doors. We had to be home when the street lights came on. You did not dare say a word about a cut or a scrape because Mom would put mecuricome on it. That orange liquid torture on a glass stopper really stung for a long time!
@iowasnewsnow IA’s mantra- put someone in charge of a service who knows nothing about the service he/she leads and has never experienced the 24/7 a person needing those services. Then let’s appoint an overseer a for profit entity. Less service = more money. IA has to do better.
@JAMoy92 School nurse- last worked 11/23. I was emotionally abused resulting in a debilitating panic attack. Advise- write or record EVERYTHING, DO NOT TRUST admin/HR, FMLA, Union Rep to witness all meetings. 10 yrs of + evals go to write ups for breathing once you are targeted.
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Oh, my mistake. These are not the children that would be able to take advantage of a voucher because they are not the students a Private School would accept. Shame on you Governor and shame on IA; we can and should definitely do better job supporting ALL Iowans and ALL SCHOOLS.
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Cut. While the wealthy Iowans are getting financial help to attend a school that only admits a certain few students based on elitist standards. This picture is exactly what is portrayed on your commercial ad on the voucher system. Not one actor looks like my children.
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP It portrays middle to upper class, white families happy with dramatic background music. The kind of families/ students that private school will admit. Next commercial please show regular, hard working middle to low class Iowans with different skin colors and different abilities.
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Disabled Iowans to pad the pockets of the FOR PROFIT company that employs them.The Medicaid company is funded by MY TAXES and providing horrible, substandard care. I see a little inequity between the haves and the have-nots. The services for differently abled Iowan's are being
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Have a very hard time wrapping my head around how my state continues to look at my children as lesser then. First, Medicaid was changed to a FOR PROFIT privatized system that employs ever changing case managers that provide zero help and make more money if they deny services to
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP The Public School system welcomed my children in the door and provided the labor intensive and expensive services needed for their educational and health needs. My children would not have even made it to the front steps at a Private school. I sit here as a tax paying Iowan and
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Personally, I am a school nurse who loves to work with differently abled students and their families. I am also the mother of 3 children. My oldest is a proud Public School Special Education teacher. The next child has a significant mental health disorder and intellectual
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Golden ticket that would guarantee admission. Public funding does not equal a school that is allowed to deny admission to a differently abled student and has zero public accountability to the tax payers funding the private school voucher.
@IAGovernor@IAHouseGOP@IASenateGOP Athlete is denied. This means the Private school is 100% real time funded for each and every student. This is profitable because it is not illegal to deny admission to a high needs student that would require expensive services to be successful. The elitist voucher is not the