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I Worked All Last Week At A Publc School As A Substitute Teacher In A Regular Elementary Classroon
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Larry D. Croc |
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Welcome to the public school system. 20% of kids are special education these days, and they are put into the regular education classroom regardless of type of disability, and often without any type of extra help like a para or co-teacher, unless it is an academic classroom. Then you have all the behavior issues, which might be special needs kids and might be regular ed kids. So in any classroom of 30 kids (yes, that is how large our classrooms are these days), you end up with as many as 10 who are totally needy as far as academic help and behavioral support. The other 20 are just pretty much on their own. And we wonder why kids get into high school and cannot read or write worth a darn, and cannot do simple math such as figuring percentages.
Quoting: GA Girl Because there are no standards for promotion. Once upon a time if you couldn't do the work there was summer school OR you repeated the grade until you learned what you needed to learn. Now? Self-concept trumps skill. "We don't want little Jermaine to feel bad about himself, let's send him to the next grade..." At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an urban based university, 30% of the incoming students need to do remedial work in the hopes they'll have a sixth grade reading level before...becoming freshmen in college.
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