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pek1 · 04-12-2006, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by deafdyke

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.

They won't listen or get it, deafdyke. I've tried. You can beat them over the head (for me, please do!) and explain it, but these "teachers" know nothing except "the list" of what students they can choose.

Because they don't listen (teachers) or want to listen, these are two of many reasons I didn't stay with my major and become a school teacher, though I may go for graduate degrees and teach at the college/university level.

You can bet, deafdyke, that if I teach at the college/university level, my students will KNOW they have been taught. One question I ask teachers is: Are you a teacher, or do you teach [children]? Yes, there IS a difference.