>>648503030You sound American.
These kids are literally permanently in high school. The one has brain damage so bad he doesn't even benefit from the program he goes to, but there is literally nothing more basic for him to move down to so they send him just to keep him active.
Our government GIVES workplaces money to hire people with downs. As in they get a job they can't properly fulfill, and the government PAYS for them to be there.
That's on top of all the medication they have covered, the money they get for wranglers to come take them out of the house every day, the different programs and camps.
And what do they have to show for the literal hundreds of thousands of dollars being invested in them? The one with downs can count small change. That's basically it.