Should My Wordless Kid Go to School with Your Normal Child?
Robert,
Before we started homeschooling, my eldest was diagnosed with ADD and an IEP was developed. After reading the materials, I said to the principal, “If I’m understanding this correctly, I can make you do anything I want.”
He allowed as how that was basically the case.
This is the fundamental problem — parents have far more power than they merit, since few of us are experts in the various fields that have bearing on the relevant issues. (Of course, some of us wonder if education is sufficiently rigorous a field to admit of expertise, but that’s another issue entirely.)
If a parent takes it into his head that his child should be mainstreamed, that child will be mainstreamed, no matter the effects on either the handicapped child or any other.
It is hardly unreasoning bigotry to object to this.
