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Young Adults with Autism and Other Special Needs

Kathleen Sochor McCall

This building...these programs!...will be incredible assets to the Council Rock community! There are so many opportunities near that location. The library is across the street. Government buildings a short walk. Businesses at the corner. It's time to make a permanent home for these kids. I'll be at every meeting pertaining to these schools, not just our school board meetings. If you do come out, please find me and say HI! As I see more faces and hear more stories, the drive to make this happen just gets stronger. Hoping to have some current students, and alumni, there to break ground on this project once it's approved!

I received this letter in my mailbox too and I am amazed how heartless people can be. I am a nurse in a special needs classroom in council rock and I have seen the positive impact the achieve program has on young adults who take amazing pride in being like everyone else. Everyday I am reminded how much pride they take in having a job with the skills they learned at achieve.

I am a PROUD parent of a Sloan student who has never ever been a discipline problem by any means. My son is not only thriving at Sloan but HAPPILY volunteers with special needs students. Every tues and Thursday my son makes sure he has money to support the Students who go to the archive program by purchasing the amazing breakfast sandwich’s they make

Why do the Achieve and Twilight program have to be in the same location? Shouldnt those on disciplinary leave be removed from school in general? 45 day suspension means 45 day suspension. Get the rehab and worry about making up school work later. Also how does the Achieve differ from the special ed programs already offered? The district has been downsizing and consolidating so why all of a sudden a brand new building? Makes zero sense.

Closed minded people wrote this letter. Teach your children and yourself the meaning of acceptance and tolerance. Deep breath....

This person is very uninformed.... people have lost their minds.

I am appalled that this letter was circulated. As the relative of an Achieve School employee and as someone who took substitute jobs at Achieve, I know it is a wonderful and necessary program for the young adults who attend and for their families. The Achieve School helps these young adults develop skills for life...such as getting on the correct Septa bus to reach their destination, or finding the location and prices for food items in the supermarket. As for Sloan, there are a myriad of reasons why students attend alternative schooling. This project has been a topic of discussion at school board meetings and is not a new one. Whether it's the township stating the building plan or school board seems to be beside the point, but the plan has been stated for some time. I also don't believe that the area surrounding the current location of Achieve/Sloan has experienced an increase in crime or had any negative "neighbor-ship" impact. I'm sure there is information that I'm not privy to, but some fact checking seems to be in order before circulating a letter such as this.

I live in Richboro, and I did receive a letter notifying us about the proposal and the meeting.

There are so many inaccuracies in this letter. Someone just wants to incite people for their own purposes. This building is being built so we stop paying hundreds of thousands in lease payments where these valuable programs are currently located.

Maybe the author of that letter with small children should be more concerned that they are going to spend a ton of money on 2 turf fields by south before they are going to bring richboro elementary up to today’s standards with better electricity and air conditioning. Maybe those issues will impact their home values rather than a special need School.

I wish I would have known. I would have attended. Who wrote this letter. I am so angry I want to punch them in the face. How horrible am I. This is a disgrace

People sure like to make up stories. Would you like me to come down and tell them real stories about both my sons’ excellent experience with students’ who were partnered up with at risk kiddos?

Meeting postponed. Alot of heated people showed up that they were not prepared for. Please stay tuned and attend!

wow... this is not my district but this is crazy!

Just in case you would like to hear more about this project, Dr. Fraser sent a email out:Dear CR School Community-I am writing to inform you that a special forum has been scheduled for Thursday, November 7 at 6:30 PM regarding the proposed CR STAR Center, to be built on the former Richboro Middle School campus and to house our ACHIEVE, Sloan, and Twilight programs. This forum, which will afford attendees the opportunity to learn more about these programs and for the Board and Administration to hear public comment, will be held in the Chancellor Center Board Room. This forum will also be televised for those who are unable to attend.I have heard some misconceptions about these three programs in recent weeks. Accordingly, we have developed a high-level factual document about these programs. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with these programs if you are not yet familiar; they serve as shining examples of public education serving the needs of all of its community’s valued youth. I am tremendously proud of the positive impact these three programs have had on countless CR students over many years.The first public discussions of this project were held this past spring as part of the District’s long-term capital plan. It has been publicly discussed several times since then at various Board meetings, most recently at the October 17 Board Business Meeting as part of my Superintendent Report.Thank you- Dr. Robert Fraser Superintendent of Schools

Kristin Shillingford Kelly Harple Lehman the ignorance goes beyond our turf field. So sad

Jessica Barber Grosso. Did you see this