>>16249172currently you can either choose to either have the surgery performed or not, that's the extent of control one has over the situation
you can also get a second opinion from another doctor but you'll likely be offered the same treatment
to bring it back to schooling, you could either keep them in school or pull them out
you can also take them to a different school but you are likely to get a similar result
if a person was skilled enough to perform surgery then they could perform it themselves technically I suppose, but the analogy doesn't really work since performing surgery is incomparably more difficult than teaching a child