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To: bboop

In your dreams. Special ed today is a racket where most of the kids do not get what they need. Special ed now is mostly a place where kids are warehoused and mark time until they are 18. Most kids taking those places do not have a disability you would recognize. Most are victims of disteachia.

Yes, that's a blanket statement but I will tell you, based on many conversations with special ed teachers and parents of these kids, that there is no path out of special ed for most (non-hysically disabled) kids and it follows them on their permanent record forever. It's a way the schools get more money per kid.

There are a lot of academically-talented kids languishing in special ed who do not need "special job training attention" as you put it. What they need are capable teachers, a meaningful curriculum, an allowance for creativity, and a return to common sense.


62 posted on 06/23/2006 12:48:29 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: cinives

(non-hysically disabled) = (non-physically disabled)


64 posted on 06/23/2006 12:50:16 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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