SUMMARY - Parental Advocacy and Education Rights
Behind many students with disabilities who succeed in school stands a parent who fought for them—navigating systems, demanding services, appealing decisions, and persisting when schools resisted. This parental advocacy is both admirable and troubling: admirable because it helps children, troubling because students shouldn't need champions to receive what they're entitled to. Understanding parental advocacy illuminates both what's possible and what's broken in inclusive education.