Don't get me started on inclusion, this has been my bugbear for decades.

It's a massive overcorrection from the past that harms everyone. The kid with special ed needs gets sent to some random local school with no training and resources to handle them, while the other 30 normal kids get disrupted.

The past did slightly over segregate out the slightly special needs kids to be fair, a kid who could (and should) integrate with the rest of society, some mild cerebal palsy so he can't walk right? And that's it, not disruptive? Yeah ok he doesn't need to go to the specialist cerebral palsy school. The high functioning aspergers kid who just misses a lot of social cues, yeah he needs to learn to function in amongst the rest of society, him being there is a part of the therapy.

But the Deaf kid who needs an interpreter? They've closed the schools for the deaf and they each get issued an 'interpreter' with all of 6 months training in a level IV (FSI scale) language! It takes 2 years to qualify as an interpreter, and pass a test where you need 70% accuracy. 70% after 2 years, imagine what the 6 month old student is interpreting, they're getting 20%, at best.

What is the point, it's just disruptive to everyone.

Don't get me started on inclusion, this has been my bugbear for decades.

It's a massive overcorrection from the past that harms everyone. The kid with special ed needs gets sent to some random local school with no training and resources to handle them, while the other 30 get disrupted.

The past did slightly over segregate out the slightly special needs kids to be fair, a kid who could (and should) integrate with the rest of society, some mild cerebal palsy so he can't walk right? And that's it, not disruptive? Yeah ok he doesn't need to go to the specialist cerebral palsy school. The high functioning aspergers kid who just misses a lot of social cues, yeah he needs to learn to function in amongst the rest of society, him being there is a part of the therapy.

But the Deaf kid who needs an interpreter? They've closed the schools for the deaf and they each get issued an 'interpreter' with all of 6 months training in a level IV (FSI scale) language! It takes 2 years to qualify as an interpreter, and pass a test where you need 70% accuracy. 70% after 2 years, imagine what the 6 month old student is interpreting, they're getting 20%, at best.

What is the point, it's just disruptive to everyone.

Don't get me started on inclusion, this has been my bugbear for decades.

It's a massive overcorrection from the past that harms everyone. The kid with special ed needs gets sent to some random local school with no training and resources to handle them, while the other 30 get disrupted.

The past did slightly over segregate out the slightly special needs kids to be fair, a kid who could (and should) integrate with the rest of society, some mild cerebal palsy so he can't walk right? And that's it, not disruptive? Yeah ok he doesn't need to go to the specialist cerebral palsy school. The high functioning aspergers kid who just misses a lot of social cues, yeah he needs to learn to function in amongst the rest of society, him being there is a part of the therapy.

But the Deaf kid who needs an interpreter? They've closed the schools for the deaf and they each get issued an 'interpreter' with all of 6 months training in a level IV (FSI scale) language! It takes 2 years to qualify as an interpreter, and pass a test where you need 70% accuracy.

70% after 2 years, imagine what the 6 month old student is interpreting, they're getting 20%, at best.

What is the point, it's just disruptive to everyone.