We don't want your special education students

Was reading some notes from long range planning in my daughter's
district (MI has schools of choice, so if a district participates, you
can have a chance at sending your child out of district - for Lola
this is a very good thing). Someone posted an email with requests for
opinions. The following is part of my response to that email; this
part had not been discussed in the email. I imagine most of the
parents discussing it do not have special education students, and
might not have been as bothered by the comments in the notes. I know I
had less of an opinion on the subject before I became a special
eduation parent:

I was reading some of the notes before the most recent meeting and was
honestly troubled by the concern that the Montessori program might
attract more special education students, and that it had to be pointed
out that it did not. As the mother of 2 children receiving special
education, my children are far more than the money they cost, and I'm
pretty sure Lola is as much of a benefit to the school as typical
children are. I'm going to take a wild guess that most of the 'special
education' children that would go to the school would be more like
her, and she actually helps keep those test scores up, so really, she
isn't so much of a bad thing. Her severely disabled brother would not
function well in a Montessori classroom, so I haven't sent him there.
It's sad, but likely unavoidable, that in these economic times our
children become dollar signs.