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Mesquite Independent School District really taught their kids a lesson. It is ok to make mistakes. Was this really a mistake? Or an intentional label? They really don't seem to appologize, just say oops. I guess that makes it all ok. The kids in the video seems to act like...What does it matter? It wasn't me. I guess all that matters is it might tarish the graduating class. There needs to be more responsibility taken by the school. The "it's a mistake" attitute is far from an appology.
They need to teach their students that it is not ok. How would they feel if it happened to them?
This forces me to think about the school I pulled my son out of. Even supposedly mainstreamed special ed students are pulled into a seperate classroom for most of the day. The desks are placed in a way that the students have huge distances between them. Some desk positions look like the lepur desk. The children eat at a seperate special ed table.
I guess special needs is the new discriminated group. Has our society learned absolutely nothing about history. Special ed students are singled out into supposed classrooms that serve their education needs. Yeah, right
I learned everything in Special Ed (as far a the basics including reading, writing and math) are allways next year. My son's placements were so equal. His class achievements one year were potty training (he knew prior to school) and making paper airplanes. At home, he was doing addition, subtracting and other things he should have been learning at school. How is that equal to other students who were learning the skills he was ready to learn?
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
Was a bathroom labeled "black" so much different from a class labeled "life skills", "autistic" or "special ed"? I don't think so. It all comes down to a denial of basic rights. Let's make sure everyone knows you are different.
Special ed seperate and definately unequal opportunities.
Mesquite Independent School District really taught their kids a lesson. It is ok to make mistakes. Was this really a mistake? Or an intentional label? They really don't seem to appologize, just say oops. I guess that makes it all ok. The kids in the video seems to act like...What does it matter? It wasn't me. I guess all that matters is it might tarish the graduating class. There needs to be more responsibility taken by the school. The "it's a mistake" attitute is far from an appology.
They need to teach their students that it is not ok. How would they feel if it happened to them?
This forces me to think about the school I pulled my son out of. Even supposedly mainstreamed special ed students are pulled into a seperate classroom for most of the day. The desks are placed in a way that the students have huge distances between them. Some desk positions look like the lepur desk. The children eat at a seperate special ed table.
I guess special needs is the new discriminated group. Has our society learned absolutely nothing about history. Special ed students are singled out into supposed classrooms that serve their education needs. Yeah, right
I learned everything in Special Ed (as far a the basics including reading, writing and math) are allways next year. My son's placements were so equal. His class achievements one year were potty training (he knew prior to school) and making paper airplanes. At home, he was doing addition, subtracting and other things he should have been learning at school. How is that equal to other students who were learning the skills he was ready to learn?
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
Was a bathroom labeled "black" so much different from a class labeled "life skills", "autistic" or "special ed"? I don't think so. It all comes down to a denial of basic rights. Let's make sure everyone knows you are different.
Special ed seperate and definately unequal opportunities.
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