My beef is with the requirements on the special education population. The requirements have to be reasonable. In addition, it always irritates me when people on FR want to moan and complain about how much it costs to educate each child, when they don't realize that the cost of some very needy children are spread out among all.
My beef is with the requirements on the special education population. The requirements have to be reasonable. In addition, it always irritates me when people on FR want to moan and complain about how much it costs to educate each child, when they don't realize that the cost of some very needy children are spread out among all.
Auuugh! I took one right to the heart!
Spread out like taxes? Time for some fiscal responsibility and accountibility.
I told you about my 'advisor'. She deals with the special ed issue as well. She actually blames people in her field of School Psych. for the special ed problems in our state.
She says that there have been too many people in the school psych field that jump on every new bandwagon of philosophy that comes along. And that as a result, they will prescripe to one set of theories and then turn around just a short time later and prescripe to one that contradicts the last (which they may have pushed for the state to implement as system). She says that over time its gotten so clouded that some ideas actually have contradicting premises in one theory. One of the results that she talks about is the idea of when special ed. based students are ready to go into classrooms with students in regular classes. The trend chasers have jumped on so many 'new' theories that they have advised the state to change measurments and testing several times in recent history. Her main problem with it...they advised change each time just to keep up with a new philosphy and not because it was something that works. Says it happens at the school district level as well.