Fucking Racist

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whats your take on mental disabilities and learning disabilities?

Unless they are organic in nature, most emotional and educational gaps are the products of upbringing/home situations. Most intellectual disabilities in America are NOT organic in nature but are caused by not having needs met in early childhood. Most Intellectually Disabled kids in this country are the product of Intellectually Disabled parents. Sad truth. Organic retardation is a different matter. Some cases can't be helped, but some have to do with protein in the diet.

America has tried the Bright Start pre-k thing for kids with needs for about 20 years now with NO lasting gains, because it is a home problem in most cases. If it is a true organic problem, there is only limited help that can be given because there is a limit to ability. The place to get help is in a special setting where individual needs are met. The parents don't seem to care if their kids learn enough to survive as adults, they just want their kid in the same room as the other kids, not matter if it helps or not. That is wrong. Some people are different, we need to deal with it differently.

Learning disabilities can be overcome, super low IQ cannot. After about 5^th grade, no real gaps can be closed intellectually. I can site literature to attest to this. Because parents of these kids don't participate in education too much, they miss the chance to fix what they screwed up. Then they blame the school.

Some kids interrupt instruction every single day. It's okay once or twice, but using up a good portion of learning time for dysfunction is wrong. Why should everybody else get less education because of one or two kids in a room? How is that fair or right? I don't understand why we let this go on in public schools. Well, I do, the parents of special needs students bitched until state and federal laws were changed. Now everybody is screwed.

It is a matter of the one versus the many. We lower our standards to match the lowest achievers. Schools are trying to fix that now with advanced content classes, but it is too late after elementary school. Every child lost out on stuff and they don't even know. We fucked them so somebody would feel better about the mistakes they made with their own child. (That wasn't directed at you and your situation, just in general.)