as a form special ed teacher
How do you like the label 'Special Ed's student?
I did not like being called a 'Special Ed's student when I was in school as the teachers did not want to spend any time helping a student labeled as kid that could not learn.
How do you feel about the tilte 'Special Ed's till being used today?
I worked as a speech therapist. i worked for special education. technically i was a special education teacher. from my point of view, i adore these children. they are special. each child has a yearly individualized education plan [or program, i forget].
lables limit.
i was in special education my for a few early elementary years. i have since graduated with my b.s. in communication science and disorders. i spent the first 2 years studying biochemistry and molecular biology. that was just hard, boring, and annoying.
but i digress...
i wonder how long ago you were in special education. they passed a thing in one year [i used to know the name and date, but as a pothead i forgot, oops
] that basically makes a lot of extra work for special education teachers. their jobs were very difficult and stressful. they worked with more severe special ed students, like mental retardation and austism. on my caseload of 54 students, i had about 20 to 30 kids whose only special education were me. [i hope you are still following my words, i suck at writing]
anyway, i have a yearbook from 2007-8, when i worked in bushkill elementary school. they didn't put me in the year book. i got fired that year for turning in my homework late [not sending in legal documents known as i.e.p.s and evaluation reports [e.r.s], and showing up late or skipping school. i skipped 23 out of 187 days that year. my students loved me, i was a good teacher, but i was overwhelemed to handle the job due to my untreated bipolar disorder.
anyways.........
i loved all my special ed students, but not in a mary kate laterno kind of way.
*joke copy written 2007*