Some are born mentally retarded, brain damaged, severely autistic, in addition to those who are learning disabled.In my school we have about 50 Learning Disabled kids, but we have 10 kids in the severe population. These kids have IQ's in the 30's and 40's.
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Are you saying mentally retarded children are
learning with normal children?
What year did this social engineering experiment start?
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Main Entry: 1re·tard
Pronunciation: ri-'tärd
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin;
Middle French retarder, from Latin retardare, from re- +
tardus slow
transitive senses
1 : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering
advance or accomplishment : IMPEDE
2 : to delay academic progress by failure to promote
intransitive senses : to undergo retardation
synonym see DELAY
- re·tard·er noun
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Talk about slowing down a class.
Many people can't drive cars because of a lack
of education. Look at the retards that causes
problems for everyone else.
Good Luck!!!
Some are born mentally retarded, brain damaged, severely autistic, in addition to those who are learning disabled. In my school we have about 50 Learning Disabled kids, but we have 10 kids in the severe population. These kids have IQ's in the 30's and 40's. _________________ Are you saying mentally retarded children are learning with normal children? What year did this social engineering experiment start?I apoligize if I was vague. The MR children are in the same school, in one of two classes, but they do not attend regular classes. They have a specific curriculum focused on life skills, such as buttoning, shoe tieing and in some cases how to toilet. The more advanced ones might work on recognizing colors, the alphabet or simple arithmatic and work skills. The staff consists of one teacher and 3 assistants.
The MR students ride a bus specified for them. When appropriate they attend assemblies and field trips with assistance from trained staff. Some of the students attending regular classes will create books on tapes for their use and will occasionally read to them. Again, this is a supervised activity with children able to handle this type of interaction and with full knowledge of parents of all. When my daughter badly sprained her ankle and was unable to attend PE, she spent 50 minutes a day for almost 4 weeks reading to two girls. My daughter enjoyed it and the 2 girls seemed to also. They seemed to look forward to seeing her and at the last day of school (today) they handed her a picture the 2 of them had painted for her. One mother searched me out to tell me how much her daughter liked Nattie. (Not her name, but the closest this child could manage)
This is just one or two examples of how MR children can benefit from attending a regular school, even if they are in their own classroom. I just don't see any harm being done here, in fact, I see good.