[bksvol-discuss] OT: Mainstreaming
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:59:52 -0500
Hi, Cindy. It's interesting. There are two sides to every coin, of course.
My husband was educated in California, and the school system he attended put
all blind students in a self-contained classroom. This infuriated me. I'm
all for self-containment when a student needs it for whatever reason, but
nothing makes me more upset than to hear kids are forced into that kind of
sheltered environment for no other reason than that people just don't know
how to deal with them so figure it'll be easier to have them all in one
place. My husband grew up not knowing how to interact with sighted kids, not
socializing with them. Besides that, he was academically deprived, and when
he takes college courses, he's taking academic development classes...things
he should have learned in high school but didn't. I think the academic
development classes are great, but when he's forced to take them just
because he wasn't properly taught when he should have been...don't get me
started on the educational slights we sometimes go through! *grin* Take
care.
Julie Morales
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today. -- Unknown
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:55 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Insensitive parents
I just can't understand parents who are insensitive
and/or unaware of their children's needs and feelings.
I know you love your parents and realize that they
love you, but ... At least you won't be that way with
your own children or with others.
It's not just parents of children who are blind or
have limited vision or perhaps other disabilities. I
had a friend--college-educated and then later an
author of children's books--who you would think would
know better--but when we were together once I heard
her get angry and tell her son that she wished he'd
never been born. How could she not know how that
would hurt a child.
And speaking of hurting children, here in California,
I hear there is a move afoot--I think it's already
being implemented--to mainstream special-ed kids.
That's fine for kids who are not "slow"--who may have
physical disabilities but who are equal mentally with
others in the regular classes, but children,
especially of the middle-school age, who need special
help because of learning disabilites--how must they
feel being in a class where they can't compete with
the other children, of where they have an aide helping
them when the other children don't. I think they'd
feel much more comfortable getting the specials help
they need in a classroom with others who are also
getting help, and with a teacher who knows how to
teach them and how to instigate feelings of
self-worth.
Forgive me, please, for sounding off. After talking
about being sensitive to others' feelings, here I am
castigating parents.
Cindy
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