Most of the kids IN the system don’t really need it. My kids and their classmates know that most of the kids in special ed are just playing the system. When you have resource kids getting on the honor roll, it sure lends credibility to the accusations that the TAs are *helping* the kids in more ways than one.
All the kids at that school have nothing but contempt for the TA’s . The general opinion is that all they’re good for is helping kids cheat.
Precisely my point: the drop in ADD and the other what I call ‘alphabet diseases’ will drop like a rock.
My daughter is on the honor roll, but she has a disability.
She has a brain injury, epilepsy, apraxia of speech and reading/writing problems, short term memory problems, and some other auditory processing problems.
She is great in math, but needs help in other areas.
The epilepsy is new this year, so she has accomodation to be able to listen to books on tape instead of reading them. It helps a lot.
She does about 2 hours of homework each nigh and she’s only in 5th grade. She workds much harder to get A’s then her brother and sister.
Having a disability doesn’t mean that you can’t get A’s. It does mean that you learn differently and need to be taught things differently.