You'd like to think that once the school has some success with your child with special needs, that success will be heartily adopted and built upon and made a permanent fact of your child's life. Yet too often what you get is individual support rather than institutional support, and things change year to year and school to school in heartbreaking ways. Terri chatted with Robert Rummel-Hudson, author of Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter and blogger at Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords and Support for Special Needs, about how much we value the people who get it and do everything they can, and how frustrating it is to start every year wondering if such an individual will be part of our child's program or whether he or she will be at the mercy of educators who feel that kids with special needs are Not Their Job. We talk about the way options get limited for learners with special needs in the most seemingly well-meaning way; how fear of failure translates into never getting to try; the need for inclusion to involve expectations as well as environment; and the value of homework as a sign that someone, somewhere is trying to educate your kid. For more on the subject, read Rob's post "The Faith of Monkeys," and if you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.