In response to “Mark:
Don’t pick on the kids – beat the dumbass parents and administrators that put them in those classrooms!” …
What an absolutely ignorant point of view you seem to have. You even hypocritically pointed out that a public school means everyone should get a chance at an education.
It’s unfair that teachers have to suffer “bad behavior from a few”? It’s unfair that people are born with disabilities. It’s perfectly fair that people chose a career and therefore need to deal with whatever comes their way. If I worked on a dock, I would not complain that I had to deal with the stench of fish. By your logic, we should all whine and moan until the world is magically fixed because professions we choose are unfair. The public should not have to live such lives of choice! God forbid! Get over it and tell the teachers (and anyone else considering hiding behind a shield of their professional title) to live up to some real moral standards.
The reason our schools have so many problems are people like you, Mark. People who refuse to see the greater need for compassionate discipline. People who refuse to see the work many (granted, and I will grant you this little) parents go through trying to aid their children with disabilities. Do you understand how the system of IEPs are set up? Administrative intervention as you’ve put it is a joke. Do you even know how many children go under the radar?
Do you yourself consider all of these children useless, hopeless to society and therefore free to be mocked and humiliated and dehumanized? AT FIVE YEARS OLD?
Yes, parents need to be more involved in their children’s upbringing. I will say that. But PEOPLE as a whole need to stop being so ignorant. Please, excuse my heated reply Mark. But I beg of you, let’s start with you.
