Assistant Village Idiot
2008-06-19 06:40:39
smarty, I would say that’s about 30% true. If you listen to the reasonable people who disagree with you instead of setting up false dichotomies, you might be able to raise that.
In my only disagreement with the original essay, I would not that while the school district has a net financial loss when declaring a child in need of special interventions, there are people within the district who benefit from the designation. This is part of what creates the impression that schools are looking to put kids on the lists; there are individuals, and the national groups behind them, who want exactly that.
