State of the Washington Schools 'STRIKE'

Our Washington schools received an extra 7.8 million dollars from the Federal Government this past April. This was based on horrifically low scores and overall bad schools. We are also ranked 49th in the nation for school services for Autism.  The 'Charter Schools' that came out of the Hurricane Katrina disaster also brought about a marked improvement on test scores and student resources.
John Stossel's Report this past week on ABC, (also available on youtube), confirmed that while multi millions have poured into schools, the students scores and performances have decreased. It costs nearly 4 times MORE to put a child through the publc school system while the private schools have always had significantly higher scores and student performance. The mismanaged millions has not been used as directed and hoped. Instead of providing better educations with proven results, the report brought to light that many more bogus administrative positions have been created.
I am all for great teachers getting great pay. The obvious answer is to encourage them to strike and to leave. Allow Charter and Private schools to step in. This will cost far less and our kids will get superior educations. This will cut down on crime, drugs, gangs and violence as has been proven time and time again. Parents will have choices without red tape.
The 7.2 million dollars was given to Washington State throught The Department of Education BUT was not reported to the Media.
As a member of the media, I would be extrememly concerned and look into this immediately. Before anyone makes a decision, please watch ABC John Stossel Report, "STUPID IN AMERICA" to see the truth.
In the 1950's, the US had student scores in the top ten globally. This is no longer the case. We have pathetic scores and are laughed at in the global community for also being the MOST EXPENSIVE education system.
The money is already there BUT it is misappropriated and wasted on everything besides our kids educations.
In local elementary schools, the students now have to provide the teachers supplies.
Change is hard at first BUT change for the better is well worth it. Let the teachers who have robbed our kids while holding out thier palms go away.
Let Charter and Private Schools come in and be paid with what is already there and they will have enough left over to be able to bring our schools technologically out of the 80's and into the modern world. WITHOUT ADDING A PENNY.
Washington Schools are some of the bottom ten in the US while the Special Needs programs are in the bottom TWO out of 50.
The parents and the students SHOULD be striking against the schools and teachers and NOT the other way around.

WASHINGTON STATE AUTISM what MUST be done NOW.

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Hello parents, families, loved ones and care givers of persons diagnosed with ASD. (Autistic Spectrum Disorders)
My son was born here in Washington. By the age of 2 1/2, he had become a wall staring, head banging, scratch your eyes out, bash his head into your face, extremely tactile, angry, speechless, eating baby food only, never sleep more than 2 hours at a time, unhappy little boy.
I did everything I could here in the state including raising monies to help not only my son but for all the kids.
Our former Governor was even thankful for the efforts and we have the letter to prove it.
BUT...
The statement Governor Gregoire made, "no child shall have to move to obtain suitable resources," was not true.

One day in 2009 after performing at Lake Fair to raise Autism funds and awareness, I was approached by another Autism parent. He and his wife had abandoned careers, a custom home and all luxuries so he could go back East and learn the correct treatments for Autism both in the schools and in the home.
He was asked if I was going to save my son or if I going to keep trying to save the state. The biggest amount of intense work with Autism needs to happen before the age of 6. What can be done before that age can take 15 years or more to do at later ages.
Daryl Hannah, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates, Marilyn Monroe, 5 Presidents including Jefferson and Lincoln, Henry Ford, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Mozart, W.B. Yeats,  James Taylor, Dr. Temple Grandin...and many more ALL have ASD!
I found out at that time that Washington was ranked 48th in the US for resources relating to Autism.

I found out that simply by moving, my son's future...and all kids with ASD who migrate can get correct treatments and will improve.
I gave a half million dollar home back to the bank, sold some personal possessions and gave a huge amount to our Church to help us load the moving truck. My best friend flew out to get the boys and my teenager daughter and I drove across country in January, (ice most of the way), to New York in 6 days. We couldn't afford hotel rooms and it was too cold to risk sleeping for long in the truck.
I had to divorce my son's daddy and leave behind my older kids and grand kids to be able to move. I also left behind my church and the community that had shown so much love for our family.
I had to make huge sacrifices with, as Washington wants everyone to believe, no guarantees. 
My son was diagnosed as SEVERELY Autistic.
(By the way, in other states, like lymphoma is a form of Cancer, Asperger's IS  just a classification of Autism  and BOTH get equal treatment. The label of Asperger's is being removed because of the discrimination in treatment and NOT because the kids don't need the same, intense early intervention and Autism support programs.
I was shocked to see how Washington pays disability for one but not the other. 
I had to fight just to get a few hours a week here in pre-K and  as I began to seriously study Autism and Developmental Disabilities it became brutally clear that innumerable mistakes were being made.
I was on 11 waiting lists for Speech. I kept my local cell number after I left to see if I would EVER get   a call to start speech therapy here but in three years, that call never came.
The President of The Autism Society in Olympia called my son "hopeless."
How terribly cruel physically and verbally she was.
We barely made it month to month but I learned many valuable lessons during this amazing journey.
We lived on only my disability. We ate from food banks.  We met some of the nicest people in the world by meeting at churches and community centers to get basic survival needs.
We had officially become a part of  the  migration to the top 8 states to get real ASD help.
If I hadn't lived here first then I never would have understood the huge difference the state you lived in made on your family's entire future.

This is the United States and the Surgeon General of The US stated in 1999 that all children diagnosed with ASD must have a minimum of 40 hours per week of ABA, (Applied Behavior Analysis), and 25 hours per week of Speech. In the cases like my son where it is an Apraxic situation, the the speech is to be done by a Speech and Language Pathologist.
Within 1 ½ months, my son's speech began and our whole world started to turn around. In the various programs we were involved in, my son tended to be on the more severe side BUT even the most severe cases all showed marked improvement following The Surgeon General's Order.
Parental training is at the heart of the top and most successful programs because 40 plus 25 hours a week makes it the responsibility of both the school and the home environments.
The stronger and more sincere the commitment is by each parent, the better the Early Intervention programs your child can get into.
The theory accepted globally is simple:
Even the greatest therapy or therapist will have NO success without the consistency and continuity between the home and school environments.
How insane then that back in Washington, I was treated with disdain and not one single methodology was used or discussed.
It is no wonder that an estimate of over 80% of all persons diagnosed in this state with ASD wind up either homeless, incarcerated or institutionalized. The focus is to embrace the disability until the child LOOKS like his neuro-typical peers. Certainly in a prison or a homeless shelter, individuality is lost and everyone does LOOK the same.
The focus rather should be on embracing the abilities which will be the catalyst for a strong future, confidence, function, independence and happiness.
Today, my son is doing Algebra, Geometry, 10th grade reading, jokes, sings, dances, writes beautifully, plays with other children, eats and made it to full inclusion 2nd grade.
All this and he's only SIX!

Hurricane Sandy and my own disability needs forced us to come back. Dad caught the last flight coming into New York before the storm and we drove back from the airport in 60 mph winds. This magnified how very vulnerable we were and we all felt like I would be able to keep his working program going...even back in Washington Schools.
The attitude I encountered was WORSE than 3 ½ years ago. At least the team prior to our move WANTED to learn and was trying to adopt some new information.
I just had to pull my son out of Public Schools in order to home school because of the negligence, resistance, ignorance, violations and failure to continue doing the system and routines which had brought my son's success!
Within a few months, he had over 1 ½ years regression in speech. Without speech, the social and confidence pieces fall off so I had to save him.
I now do extensive research, writing, commentary, editorial, advocacy and fund raising for Autism free to everyone who asks for my help.
I would love to meet with any groups, big or small to answer questions and to have everyone see my son now. If a picture can say a thousand words then to see his Medical diagnosis from only a few years ago and compare it to the boy here today, NOTHING could be greater proof or cause the needed HOPE that early diagnosed families need.
I need to make one thing clear.
I am NOT in this for money. 
If a non profit asks for our help then we ask for nothing. If a for profit asks then we would barter things the kids need or donate a portion of our salary.
However, if anyone wishes to arrange a large gathering, asking for a few dollars at the door or doing a fundraiser is always available to you.
Whether it be the explanation of what CAUSES Autism, why it affects boys over girls, how to reach them in the beginning, how to inspire the speech, how to get them to eat, what the schools should be doing, how and why to use technology as young as possible, how to quickly raise the money to get technology, (again, not for me), what apps are best and why, common myths, exposing the billion dollar media machine that is NOT needed, finding great support and learning groups and web sites, how to find advocacy, where to find your rights, what stages do dads typically go through at the child's diagnosis that are so different from most moms, which vaccines may have dangers BUT what actually did cause and continues to cause the HUGE rise  in ASD, what NEVER to do, what are the biggest risks and how to avoid them, finding area therapists with Autism Awareness, how to home school, where to find correct information, what you can do in the home FREE, and whatever I have learned ...I want to be available for you.
There is even a connection between the rise in Autistic Spectrum Disorders and the rises in ADD, Tourette's, Alzheimers, Parkinson's and more.

You will find out why chelation does NOT work. They found that out shortly after Vietnam!
The 'diet' also does nothing to improve ASD.
Mayo Center published those results three years ago!
I fell for it too. I starved my son with rice food and almond milk for 7 months as he worsened.
The day we broke the diet and he ate a McDonald's cheeseburger was the day his speech sounds started to return.
Chewing muscles are speech muscles.
The whole GFCF diet is actually harmful yet look at how it's become widespread.
Jen McCarthy was deemed the greatest menace to our children 6 years ago by the Board of Pediatrics and the CDC yet her book is still on the shelves.
Check out Harvard's 'Jen McCarthy Body Count' website for shocking statistics.
Although the metals trigger or intensify ASD, they do NOT cause it. Common sense should tell you that if boys and girls are vaccinated equally that they should be affected equally BUT they are NOT.
The fact that it has always been hugely boys over girls points to another and more obvious answer.
Also since AUTISM is on the rise globally including nations who barely have aspirin, then one has to ask what we DO have in common.
It IS partially a drug company issue BUT there is a perfect storm of environmental conditions which complete the story.
Until we have the correct information, we are losing valuable time which belongs to OUR CHILDREN.

You will learn what CAN be done to stop the growth BUT at 1 in 30...it is better to focus on our kids that are here and in need of the correct and most current accommodations and treatments NOW.
This is NOT a sales pitch nor do I endorse products.
This really is the biggest eye opener most of you will ever have or need at this point in time.
Autism has been treatable for YEARS but Washington, now in 49th place is also one of only 11 states left without Autism reform. The bill passes stringint approval through Autism Speaks at the same time as Oregon's new bill BUT when it came to signing time, Oregon went forward and without hardly a whisper, our reform bill got pulled. No explanations were made publicly as to why.
I can explain Autism reform and why it will help us all. 
I will also explain why the self-proclaimed 'Autism Experts' don't want the reform.
The less fiction and more facts we all have, the more we can help our loved ones.
What we need to learn, we can do alone but gain far more as a group. As we grow and are recognized, we can make the future journeys free of constant battles and frustration. We can help keep the family units together and happy by turning on the lights and empowering by numbers.
We can ask parents to help watch each others kids at one meeting then switch off for another. 
We can publish for those who are home bound or working as we learn.
We have to stop the darkness and do what has been done for years to give our loved ones back their lives, dreams and goals.

This is the greatest example of ONLY the squeaky wheels being heard. Even at that, in places like this state, there needs to be an overhaul and professional retraining to infuse the most current and cutting edge research and information.
We can promote community awareness so that our kids aren't alienated, so that we're not afraid of melt downs in public, so that our skeptics and know it all family members can  learn, so that the neuro-typical kids grow up embracing their Spectrum peers instead of fearing or misunderstanding them.
We can do ALL OF THIS for free!
WE can even help businesses in the community with ideas and information so they can also reach out and help.
We can help direct donations so they go to the families and kids in our own communities, NOT to pay hefty administration fees and print gloom and doom brochures in some far away office.
WE can build a network prepared for every newly diagnosed family to navigate with high expectations and ease.
All we ever needed was the correct information and the proof that it works.

I can't wait for everyone to meet my son!
I believe this can be the beginning of a functional, strong group that can make the changes fast enough  so that no more kids have to be less than what they have the potential, dreams and desires to be.
Please write to me through this posting to set up a call or a meeting.
Let me know if you'd like to set up a fund raiser.  all, for the kids and the families to have hope, love, acceptance, understanding and happiness.
There are amenities everywhere for the sight impaired, hearing impaired and those who need wheelchair accommodations. ASD affects more than all of those groups together yet there are NO quiet rooms, no restaurants, no vacation spots, no parks, etc...with accommodations specific to what these families need.  
You can look at www.AutismBattle.com to read our earlier exodus and journey.
You can YouTube Charlie Hackett Circus/ Autism Fund raiser to see what we can perform to help raise monies.
We are NOT strong here YET because we have been given bad information are not yet organized.
Like keeping Insurance Reform from passing, there are many who make a living because we are kept in the dark.
It is correct information that will bring us together then it is by us all working together that information will be put to use.
Here is the truth about the cost of ignorance.

In most states today, it is not known that spending a half a million on each kid which typically leads to a higher education, functional, working, happy life where those funds are repaid AND these brilliant minds continue to develop their remarkable talents and use their extra serotonin...is far better then to spend between 3 and 77 million on each person like they still do here now.
To leave a person with Autism/Asperger's untreated...to alienate a genius mind...such notorious persons as Adolph Hitler and Jeffrey Dahmer are examples of such instances.
The recent youth shooters are other examples of non-diagnosed and/ or untreated persons with ASD.
The expense of ignorance costs far more than money but much of the treatment is FREE.
Parents are the strongest force in the school systems BUT only in numbers.
Attorneys can't do much in the State because the 'expert' witnesses lack the correct knowledge. Consulting with Gary Mayerson and Associates in NYC and we would then accomplish more.
You will also learn what can happen to the allocated special education school funds if you don't demand they be used ON YOUR CHILD!
Please contact me. I wish there had been an opportunity like this when we were first diagnosed BUT that's why I am happy we are back.
If you are trying to decide if your child may have ASD, please look on www.AutismBattle.com for the early signs and symptoms.
I believe as a group, we can all share and begin to make the changes before any more of our kids end up unnecessarily dysfunctional and/ or unhappy.
EVERY person deserves dignity and to have the opportunity to become all they have the potential to be.
To resist change...
Let me just ask all of you, if your loved one needed open heart surgery, would you seek out the doctors who have not been back to school or training for decades and have a high mortality rate OR would you seek out the newest surgeons who are trained with the newest techniques on the newest equipment and have the highest 
success rate?
Autism is also a medical diagnosis and settling for anything less than the most current, correct and accommodating therapies, services, methodologies and highest trained persons should not be tolerated anymore.
I will give you all I have seen and learned and will gain so much by continuing to learn from each and every remarkable journey with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Share+Care=AWARE

*My son's favorite T-shirt says, "I am unique, aren't you?"

Like in the other states, we can ask existing organizations to work together or we can simply ask parents to start area groups. Email makes it possible to keep everyone informed as well as show our numbers.
We need everyone.
Our loved ones need us.
The fact that this is already happening in most of the country means that we have the strongly based evidence we need to go all the way.

I want to thank everyone for reading this. Each one of you who shares this, reaches out to someone in need or plays a part in bringing on change will have the gratification of knowing that you made a huge difference in the lives of so many. The difference that we be realized within a matter of a few years and will be seen in our lifetimes. How often does a chance like this occur?
Is there any cause that could be more urgent than something affecting 1 out of 30 of us which CAN be treated?
I hope know my passion is shared and I look forward to working with everyone.
A new Governor means a clean slate and a time when change can happen. 
My son was called hopeless by the former 'Autism Expert' of Washington.
She suddenly moved to Arizona the same week Christine Gregoire left the Governor's seat. 
That leaves the pathway clear for us to bring the state forward so that ALL PERSONS with ASD can get the same correct and current treatments and accommodations that are causing the huge success stories in the other states.
Let's do this!

Contact me at bymydezine@gmail.com and plz put Washington Autism in the subject line.