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Study shows what ed psychs determine is why students need sp ed. Shocking?
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 589880" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I was a teacher for 35 years. Special Education is one of those programs that started out as a good idea and has evolved into a mess. </p><p> There are a lot of kids who need Special Education because of their mental disabilities. What with political correctness, I'm not sure what it's supposed to be called these days but there are some kids who don't have the mental abilities to function in a normal classroom. In the old days, those kids just didn't get an education at all; they stayed home of were sent to an institution. That was bad. Now they all end up in public school. I'm not sure that's the answer either. They need an appropriate education but with the no child left behind laws and all of the other **** that government officials who haven't seen a child in 40 years have written, they aren't getting what they really need. I've seen kids who should be learning to count to balance a check book with the help of a calculator being, instead, led through high school math classes by the Special Education teacher because it is required by the powers that be. It is stupid.</p><p></p><p>Add to that the fact that any kid who becomes a problem, usually through behavioral problems, gets recommended for SPED too, you have an unholy mix of kids with various special needs that cannot be met by what we have now. As members of this board, we know that behavioral problems are often nothing to do with home life, etc. </p><p></p><p>Our education system sucks. We throw millions of dollars at the kids in SPED without addressing their real needs, we pretty much ignore the most intelligent of our kids, and the kids in the middle get lost in the shuffle. It is a wonder anybody learns anything at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 589880, member: 135"] I was a teacher for 35 years. Special Education is one of those programs that started out as a good idea and has evolved into a mess. There are a lot of kids who need Special Education because of their mental disabilities. What with political correctness, I'm not sure what it's supposed to be called these days but there are some kids who don't have the mental abilities to function in a normal classroom. In the old days, those kids just didn't get an education at all; they stayed home of were sent to an institution. That was bad. Now they all end up in public school. I'm not sure that's the answer either. They need an appropriate education but with the no child left behind laws and all of the other **** that government officials who haven't seen a child in 40 years have written, they aren't getting what they really need. I've seen kids who should be learning to count to balance a check book with the help of a calculator being, instead, led through high school math classes by the Special Education teacher because it is required by the powers that be. It is stupid. Add to that the fact that any kid who becomes a problem, usually through behavioral problems, gets recommended for SPED too, you have an unholy mix of kids with various special needs that cannot be met by what we have now. As members of this board, we know that behavioral problems are often nothing to do with home life, etc. Our education system sucks. We throw millions of dollars at the kids in SPED without addressing their real needs, we pretty much ignore the most intelligent of our kids, and the kids in the middle get lost in the shuffle. It is a wonder anybody learns anything at all. [/QUOTE]
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