Dear editor:

Here I am again, the great-grandmother who is raising her 12-year-old great-grandson. I have received some response from my previous letter in your paper.

There are a few people from the IEP group who are supplying a tutor at his school for two hours a day twice a week. I am wondering if this will help him, and where do I go from here? They are bound and determined to send him to Blossomland in Berrien Springs. Do these people really have the right to tell you where your child should go?

We have gone to Blossomland and I am not too favorably impressed with it. James did not like it and does not want to ride a bus that far away from home.

Why can’t we get a qualified school for special education children closer to home like Oak Manor or Ring Lardner?

There are a lot of article in the papers about kids going to college; if they can’t even read and don’t have the basic learning skills, how can they make it to college?

The president has signed a bill that delegates $12 billion for the education of children with disabilities. I am hoping this will greatly improve the chances of these children, who are not being taught, to get the chances they need to learn while they are still young and in order to survive in the world when they become adults.

Elaine Gray

Niles