Syag Lchochma
I do not know how it is in Chicago but here in NYC they have them in group homes that are sponsored by Jewish Organizations, the male separate from the females. If they get married they get them an apartment. If they are functional enough they get them jobs. The group homes provide not only a place to eat, sleep and take their medicine but also provides entertainment. The homes makes sure he goes to sleep and gets up on time and get along with his housemates. They can live there and are provided with clothing and spending money whether or not they have a job . These homes are only available to developmentally disable who are Jewish and Orthodox. Someone who went to public school wouldn’t fit in.
There are secular group homes also, some are very good but there are also those who take anyone, and this can sometime be very dangerous especially if a roommate is off his meds and is violent.
Since English is your first language, your statement “Here in Chicago they will need to be in jobs in the secular community”.
Shouldn’t it read “Here in Chicago they will need to be employed by the secular society, so while a Jewish education is a top priority so is reading and writing in English equally important”. Are they really into these jobs (you used in 3 time in the first part of the statement). Also are you saying that grocery stores are only secular? Are there no Jewish grocery stores in all of Chicago? Likewise are you saying the only employers in Chicago are secularist. I know the city is in a financial crisis and Rahm Emanuel is your mayor but I didn’t know you need his permission to hire someone. I could understand he might not to want hire more city employees during the fiscal crisis but having the power as to who gets hired or fired this sounds like Communist Russia in the old days.
Nobody said anything about keeping student away from the English language. The reason the parents don’t want the their children integrated in the public school is because whenever it was done Jewish kids come home with X-mas and Easter decoration besides toy from McDonald and Burger King. Who knows if the children ate the burgers or not . Although the parents have warned the schools many times it still kept happening so from the time Kiryat Joel School District was approved and on at least here in New York there will be no integration between Jewish special ed students and the public school student.