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and I believe it would be beneficial for teachers to learn this, instead of learning how to put a condom on a banana (no, that was not added to report...I'm being facetious) or how to choose only the brightest pupils. Teachers need to learn that students are not "deaf and dumb" but "deaf and intelligent" instead
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You know......I think that teacher training programs need to have seperate courses on how to educate deaf, blind and other classically disabled kids.
Educating kids with classic disabilites is different from educating LD kids.
All those pro-mainstreamers just don't get it. Certainly the quality of education may be better at a mainstream school, but too many mainstreamed kids get lumped in with the dumbass slacker kids who are put in special ed b/c there's no other place for them. Unfortunatly, the mentality is that the dumbass kids aren't going to acheive......and if a dhh kid gets minmal accomondations, and doesn't acheive under those accomondations, they too get told that they are never going to acheive.
I think too that education of kids with classic disabilites should be segregated from education of kids with LDs.