I went to school with students with disabilities. The school provided a room that the students with disabilities went to for a period a day. I would go to the resource room with a lot of students to get help. I was never embarrassed to go there I actually enjoyed the help I received and thought it was worth it.
Teachers have to prep there day for different levels of class, for instance they may teach an English academic class and an honors class in the same day. The teacher has to take their time to set up two lesson plans for the different abilities. It is not fair to make a teacher to have to figure out how they are going to teach an academic classroom of students and one disabled student.
There was one student in my class that was very disabled. The school did not have a program for someone as handicapped as he was. His parents decided that they did not want to put him in a private school that could better help him so he went through the public school system. This was unfair to a lot of people. It was unfair to him because he was probably not getting the best education he could because he was in normal level classes. It was unfair to students in his class because occasionally the class would have to slow down or stop so that he could try to catch up. And it was unfair to the teacher because they would have to make separate tests for him. He was in one of my classes when I was a freshman. He would sit in the outside row so that his helper could be close and help him. The teacher of that class would make up special vocabulary tests that were completely different from the ones that the rest of the classes were taking. This was unfair to everyone because he is in the same level class as everyone else but is not at the same level of education as everyone else.
The school did all that they could to help this student out, He even graduated on time with the rest of the class. It is not fair to put the student in the school that he is not ready to be in. The student would have benefited greatly by going to a school that could accommodate his needs. I have a friend that when he was in middle school his parents decided he should go to a different school so he could get more assistance. At this time no one thought that he would ever be able to go to college. He went to a special high school that he lived at for four years, by the time he was done he was ready to go to community college and he completed two years successfully. It was because his parents knew he should not be in the public school system and got him the help he needed, that’s why he was able to go on to college.
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I also went to school with students with disabilities and also had some in my class that the teacher would have to do the same thing as your teacher was doing. The teacher would have to make specail test for that student and make the proper accomdations for that student. Although it is unfair to the rest of the class the student proply had an IEP and if was given that test would do very poorly on it because of his disability. Although its unfair i guess it would be fair to the child with disabilties.Howver i know exactly what your talking about when you say the teacher would have to stop the class so the other student could catch up, which is ridulous because all the other students are ready to go, but thats why the student should have a resource teacher sitting next to him or her. Because the teacher can help him or her catch up without interrupting the class or slowing the class down. I also did the same thing as you if i needed help with something i would go to a resource teacher for help. But it was oppostite for me i was so embarressed to go in there! I hated it because i felt like i would get made fun of by the other students.
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