For the second time, one South Bay teacher is making sure all students get to have a fun and inclusive Halloween dance. Here's how you can help:
"You know, we don't usually go to the regular school dances and I said hey, I want to showcase and really highlight students in special education and I thought, hey, my students they want to go to the dance so lets have a dance," Vital said."I know we're in special education but all we want to do is be treated fairly.
"It's nice because he feels like his peers, you know, they don't feel isolated - they feel like you know part of the students," Delgado said."It's very hard you know, because the things we go through on a daily bases the other children don't have to deal with," Delgado said.The district is allowing him to organize a second Halloween dance for special education students. Similar to last year, it's funded by parent donations.
"Without them, there's no dance. So you know it's from the Halloween decorations to the food, to the drinks, to the prizes, we even have a photo booth, we have a DJ and even the buses that are picking up the students from their schools - we have to pay for that," Vital said.So far, word of the party has spread fast, and 19 classes have RSVP'd to go; four of them are from outside the district. The students range from preschoolers to high school.
"You know, we want to experience everything that any other student experiences. Although we don't go to every single school dance. This is just for us," Vital said.Superintendent Antoine Hawkins thinks it's a phenomenal event. "Students with special needs or have special needs - it's so important for them to have normalcy in their lives. So what I think about it is - I am so excited that we have a teacher who's taken the lead. Who is going to look at ensuring our students have a phenomenal time just as everyone else at the school," Hawkins said.
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