[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Mainstreaming
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:55:00 -0800 (PST)
I agree, Julie, that kids who are blind or deaf but
not develomentally challenged could and should be
mainstreamed. I think that's good for both that child
and the non-disabled children. I don't think we had
any blind children and any of my children's schools
from K - 12, but we did have several deaf kids in the
various years I worked at the middle school, including
one who was born deaf and therefore had some speech
difficulties. They were mainstreamed and gotr along
very well; they were also very bright. We also had a
young lady who was extremely short. I can't really say
that she was a little person, because her height, I
think, was a function of whatever disease it was that
she had--which unfortunately meant that she would--and
did, die very young--while she was still in middle
school. She was very popular with everybody and did
very well in school. Her only problem was getting to
classes on time, since our school is spread over quite
a wide campus and required a lot of walking. She
solved that problem by leaving her classes abou 5
minutes early and hurrying. After she died, the next
year her brother, with the same condition, started
missle school.
I think having children with disabilities, even
mentally developmental ones in certain non-academic
classes, is a good thing for the "normal" kids. They
learn what the other kids are capable of and develop
understanding, not pity or, as some of you have told
not rudeness or fear or insensitivity.
Cindy
-- Julie Morales <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need
> to be in their lives
> 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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