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A central issue in the controversy over residential schools
versus main-streaming is the needs of the individual students.
Granted student rights under 94-142, many school systems--
especially the poorer ones--cannot provide blind students with
either properly trained teachers or material to provide an
adequate learning environment.  If particular students need the
intensive training available only in the residential schools for
any portion--however small--of their elementary and secondary
education, then that training should be available, even when a
school district must underwrite the cost of sending students to
such schools.  A neutral panel should determine whether these
students should attend the residential schools, for local school
districts will usually argue that they can meet the students'
needs, placing their wish to save money above the students'
needs.  There is currently a move in Virginia to force local
school districts to pay a portion of the cost of sending children
to the state's two residential schools.

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