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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I agree with boobs in this regard, isolating kids who may need special attention and giving them 'special' activities and a 'special' teacher just separates them from 'normality' and shoots their confidence down. They need to be integrated and included in the classroom as a whole - given the same learning opportunities as everybody else.
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I'm sure it sucks for those kids but the goal of special education isn't to segregate schools into "normal" and "not normal," it's to give those kids an extra hand so they don't fail all their classes. I'm aware that there's plenty of kids that simply have learning disabilities, do you find it justifiable that many of them won't graduate because of their disabilities when they're otherwise completely functional?
I was actually on the other side of the fence, in an accelerated learning program for the majority of my primary and secondary schooling (once we started taking AP and college classes it became somewhat unnecessary). Shortly after I graduated, the school district completely removed that system (in compliance with NCLB), forcing the more intelligent students to assume the same mediocre role as everybody else. What kind of message do you think this sends to children?
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Originally Posted by boo boo
Yeah. I don't mean to mock special needs kids with the retard comment, in general those were the only kids who were nice to me.
But yeah, it's terrible that the school board pigionholes kids with a diverse range of problems and needs into one little category. A kid with attention and social behavior problems shouldn't be treated like he's functionally retarded. That only fuels the social alienation.
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I think you're probably right about this, but aside from personal tutors, what other options does a school district have?