I've found that as parents of exceptional kids, we have options. Even when our kids have other problems, bottom line is they are smart and we can find resources to educate them, or lacking that, do it ourselves. Children who are not exception, who struggle with school, or have severe behavorial problems and who have parents who either do not or cannot get involved, or ones of suffer from neglect are the ones who can most be impacted by teachers who recognize and intervene in their education. Removing that from the schools is not going to improve education.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > there is an enormous rant behind that paragraph, but almost everyone on the > list has heard it several times, so I will refrain. Bottom line, the kid is > 21 now and in his weaker subject no worse off than his peers; in his better, > quite a bit ahead. This because I declined to let the schools system make > him a statistic. And yes, he was dually exceptional, with ADD, problems with > fine motor skills, and an IQ of 140.....and they had the test scores to > prove it. They just weren't going to do anything about it until he failed a > grade. Over the fact that his teacher would not accept his homework because > of his handwriting. I'll shut up now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340543 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
