“He may be special needs, but he sure knew how to launch her across the room and beat the hell out of her.”
Yes he did. which is why I asked in an earlier post “Don’t they teach special needs kids how to behave?”
I got a lot of interesting answers.
short answer No they don’t. They don’t hold these kids to the same standards. Mainstreaming them is a waste of time and money. Why mainstream if you are not going to hold them to the same standards?
As tommy sotomayor would say about the “retarded kid throwing snack packs against the wall in the class room” why is that allowed? The normal children can’t do that? Yet the normal children see the retarded child do it and get away with it and it just make the normal kids angry. They don’t understand and we expect kids to understand. BUT THEY DON’T.
So have special schools for these kids where they may throw their snack packs against the wall all day and it does not matter. Have schools like this were former linebackers are the teachers. If needed we reopen a place like Willowbrook and not let it become in disarray.
I hate to say it but this is an epic fail as I knew it would be.
Some time back, at least months if not a year ago, I was reading about a school district where they went back to special needs schools and a great write up on one of these schools. Some of these kids have severe behavioral and emotional disorders. Staff appeared to handle these very disturbed kids very ably, humanely, firmly, to good effect. Parents involved and helped to manage kids’ problems at home better and the kids improving. Consistency is key. This is what these kids need.
It was great back when I was a kid and “mainstreaming” meant letting in kids with physical disabilities. Here came Phil in his wheelchair. We all really liked Phil — he was a great kid. He just had paralysed legs. He fit right in and it seemed good for him and good for us. He was fun, intelligent, great sense of humor and totally trustworthy. Looking back, he was mature for his age but still just a Kid Like Us (same as some others in our class who were mature for their age but still just regular kids). He caused no problems whatsoever. All he needed was a table for a desk, not an all-in-one type desk like the rest of us. His Mom made great cupcakes, too.
The kids with severe behavioral and emotional problems need their own special schools. It’s cruel to mainstream them — it does them no favors, and is harmful and and dangerous to the other kids. And staff, of course.
he knows he doesn’t want anybody to do that to him, so... he’s guilty.
“Mainstreaming them is a waste of time and money. Why mainstream if you are not going to hold them to the same standards?”
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We need this conversation on a national level. Our special needs beauty “graduated” high school at 20 - she can read at a 5th grade level and do math at 3rd grade level; science and English were meaningless. Had we not been able to afford a private school for the mentally handicapped she would have had to be mainstreamed in the public school where she would have been either a victim or a victimizer (no joke, her fear response was feral and at just 80 pounds it would take a strong adult male to keep her from harming others while raging.)
Another national conversation we need is to get women of child bearing capability to stop drinking alcohol.