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This thought has crossed my mind a lot recently--why are there special ed programs in place in schools? Now, this thread is more to explore the hypothetical, since we all know that nobody would ever stop special ed programs for obvious reasons. But why are these obvious reasons so obvious? Please note that I am talking about the disabled who are too 'retarded (for lack of a better word here)' to speak, can't feed themselves, etc. Not down syndrome.
In every elementary, middle, and high school, there are always been those retarded (i'm just going to say retarded if it offends you too bad) kids that just have no idea whats going on. Yet our schools have to have had to have spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on them for special equipment, special foods, special teachers to help them, etc. Why? I doubt that a rudimentary knowledge of things like numbers and the alphabet will do anything for them when they lack the idea to form thoughts and opinions? They aren't going to get a job. They aren't going to make friends. Yet we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to...teach them the alphabet? Where I live, $100,000 could nearly pay three extra teachers a year to reduce class sizes for students that are actually going to contribute to society and are conscience of where they are and what they are doing. The mentality is "Well they are still people too", and they are, but do they really need to go to school? Opinions.
In every elementary, middle, and high school, there are always been those retarded (i'm just going to say retarded if it offends you too bad) kids that just have no idea whats going on. Yet our schools have to have had to have spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on them for special equipment, special foods, special teachers to help them, etc. Why? I doubt that a rudimentary knowledge of things like numbers and the alphabet will do anything for them when they lack the idea to form thoughts and opinions? They aren't going to get a job. They aren't going to make friends. Yet we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to...teach them the alphabet? Where I live, $100,000 could nearly pay three extra teachers a year to reduce class sizes for students that are actually going to contribute to society and are conscience of where they are and what they are doing. The mentality is "Well they are still people too", and they are, but do they really need to go to school? Opinions.