ones special needs? I am in my mid 30’s. Worked very hard and done well for myself and my family. I am tired of taking care of everyone who happens to have some special needs. I know that some are born this way, some do it to themselves by doing stupid things, some are just lazy, and some just fake it. I see the negative effects of this philosophy in my children’s schools, my work place, stores, and many other places. I am sorry but why should their problems affect my life so much. Why should my child get less one on one attention from the teacher because we are mainstreaming mentally handicapped children who take up 3 times as much time as a normal kid?
2006-12-18 09:16:10 · 6 answers · asked by Brian 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, we would be better off. I am pro-abortion.
2006-12-18 09:22:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
As a former traditional classroom teacher, I can assure you they are NOT sticking the kids who need the most attention into your children's classes; they still have and likely always will have their own classrooms. For those students who are being mainstreamed, each of them has an aide in the classroom with them 95% of the time, helping them so the teacher may continue to go about his or her job.
You want to be concerned about education - be concerned about the kids without special needs - your own children. Most classes have kids on the slower end of the scale and kids on the much faster end of the scale - everyone else fits in between. And that is where teacher is required to teach to. There is this lovely ideal presented in college to all burdgeoning young teachers, that they will be able to fulfill the needs of everystudent, every day, all the time. And an ideal is all it is. In reality, class sizes are too large, funds for supplies and teaching materials too low, teachers are expected to fulfill extra duties they used to hire staff for when we were kids, and still try to teach everyone according to their needs.
The best a teacher can do is try. Sometimes you miss a few. Or several. There do need to be some reforms- the smart kids get ignored, the slower kids get left further behind, and the teacher is worn thin trying to do it all, so every child suffers for it.
I'd worry more about helping your community get a better grip on education than worrying about special needs folks.
BTW, maybe look into some of the positive things about a guy with down's syndrome bagging your groceries, being involved in your child's life at school. What informal lessons do your kids learn from these people? A large number, same as they do from old people and people in different families than your own.
Think on it.
2006-12-18 17:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're blaming the wrong cause for your child's not getting enough attention from the teacher. Letting kids with problems die, or refusing to educate them is unnecessarily cruel.
Civilized people believe that everyone should have a chance to live a good life, and they want their tax money to pay to make it so.
That teachers are over-worked and classes too big is not the fault of the students.
Remember, all of who don't fit in your categories of "special needs" are simply the "temporarily able-bodied" -- if someone on a cell phone crashes into your car harming your kid, would you want society to turn their backs on you?
2006-12-18 21:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If I could be who you wanted all the time..." If only the world were exactly what we wanted it to be. Those people are just trying to make an effort to adapt, to fit into society, how sad is it when we cannot make an effort ourselves to let them be a part of the "normal world"? You should just be thankful and feel privileged neither you or your children are one of them, imagine if you were and everyone had those ideas you just stated in your question. Put yourself in their position for a minute...That's all I can say for now, your point of view really saddens me to say the least.
2006-12-18 17:28:27 · answer #4 · answered by interpreters_are_hot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How very shallow of you to have this notion of life,would you say the same if your child was handicapped?
2006-12-18 17:29:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if, god forbid, anything were to happen to your child, would your view be different?
2006-12-18 17:22:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋