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June 25, 2007
Now All Kids Are in Special Ed
Posted by Dave Blount at June 25, 2007 9:17 PM
Small wonder moonbats have focused on saturating the education field. By corrupting education, they can virtually ensure the destruction of our society's future.
An example of the effective application of moonbattery to education is the practice of "mainstreaming," also called "inclusion." It involves dumping special ed kids with learning and psychiatric disabilities in with everyone else, so they won't have their feelings hurt by having to be in a separate class.
This does more than impose a liberal's notion of equality by dumbing everything down to the lowest possible level. Due to the behavioral problems usually associated with special ed cases, classes are often disrupted to the point that no one learns anything.
Reports first-grade student Shaun Hopkins of Scranton, Pennsylvania:
I can't listen because of Andrea.
The Andrea in question has Williams Syndrome, which causes learning disabilities and various medical problems. Symptoms, in Andrea's case, include hitting other children, making loud spitting noises in their ears, tearing up worksheets, and pounding on computer keyboards with her nasty little fists. One morning Andrea swept everything off the teacher's desk, shattering a glass frame. Another day, she managed to scream at the top of her lungs for nearly an hour, from 1:25 to 2:15.
In 1990, 33% of special ed students spent more than 80% of the day disrupting normal classrooms. By 2005, that rose to 54% of special ed students. This is in part a delayed consequence of the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a piece of feel-good moonbattery that requires "free appropriate" education for children with disabilities in the "least restrictive environment."
Unsurprisingly, this lunacy is driving teachers who are interested in teaching as opposed to babysitting out of the profession. In a survey of teachers who quit their jobs, 35% cite the mainstreaming of special ed students as a main reason for their dissatisfaction.
As our classrooms degenerate into madhouses for the sake of political correctness, we can look forward to future generations lacking the education if not the raw intelligence to question their socialist masters, upon whom they will be dependent for handouts if they are to survive.
On a tip from Varla.
