Should My Wordless Kid Go to School with Your Normal Child?
This is unbelievable.
I grew up in a public school system where the special needs children went to school with the rest of us “normal” kids. We grew up with these kids and learned to respect them as human beings, not drooling vegetables that were costing more than their fair share of our parents’ tax dollars.
I honestly don’t know if the money spent to care for these children was taken from education or health funding, nor do I care. It was an invaluable lesson for all of us to see what these kids were capable of and I cannot imagine them being warehoused in some off-site “special” school.
Our “special” school was located inside the “normal” school. We interacted with these members of our community every day. You know – just like in real life. Most of these kids are now working local jobs, doing what they can at a grocery store or gas station.
There is no stigma with these kids. We all know them and repect them. They are not idiots who deserve to be kept out of sight, out of mind so that our perfect children don’t have to be bothered with them. They think, they feel, they understand when they are being treated like crap.
I suspect many of the critics of public funding for special needs either got lucky and had “normal” kids or don’t even have kids and really don’t have a clue what being a parent is.
And I’m guessing that those same critics would have no problem with their own child receiving special attention if they were gifted and could benefit from (more expensive) advanced education. Or would that also be “socialism”?
