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Jan. 11th, 2006 11:52 pmThe School Budget is going to be tight yet again this year. Unless we free up money, there isn't enough for raises for teachers. We will be able to free up some money, and it will be fine, but it will be tight.
I would just like to point out that I know how to solve budget problems for years to come. It is fair, and balanced, and everyone will hate it because they refuse to acknowledge that Nerds are special too.
We can simply give to Sp. Ed. kids exactly what we give G&T kids. One hour a week in elementary schools, one period a week in Middle School, and nothing at the High School, and anything else a parent may care to do for their child is at their own expense. The district has always sacrificed their greatest students on the altar of general education and heterogeneous grouping while crafting mighty Cathedrals for IEP students and those without any ability to perform academically, that they might have resources poured upon them in unquestioned comfort and security for as long as it can be even tenuously justified. It is time that the meager scraps that are seen fit for our academically able students be served to our academically disabled ones.
The true needs of a G&T student are no greater or less than those of most IEP students, and while ignoring a problem among the Sped population leads to knowledge gaps and reading deficiencies, ignoring a kid when they was nothing more than to be allowed to be smart and to learn with teachers who value understanding and depth and deviation leads to decay and languor which cripples them for life and deprives the world of another shot at the great American novel, or the AIDS vaccine, or any of the hundreds of things they could already be capable of at 15 if only we would let them. General Education is a millstone around the necks of kids, casting them into the sea to fight the waves and come screaming for air with their strength ever waning or to give up and drown under the weight with no help from anybody.
I would just like to point out that I know how to solve budget problems for years to come. It is fair, and balanced, and everyone will hate it because they refuse to acknowledge that Nerds are special too.
We can simply give to Sp. Ed. kids exactly what we give G&T kids. One hour a week in elementary schools, one period a week in Middle School, and nothing at the High School, and anything else a parent may care to do for their child is at their own expense. The district has always sacrificed their greatest students on the altar of general education and heterogeneous grouping while crafting mighty Cathedrals for IEP students and those without any ability to perform academically, that they might have resources poured upon them in unquestioned comfort and security for as long as it can be even tenuously justified. It is time that the meager scraps that are seen fit for our academically able students be served to our academically disabled ones.
The true needs of a G&T student are no greater or less than those of most IEP students, and while ignoring a problem among the Sped population leads to knowledge gaps and reading deficiencies, ignoring a kid when they was nothing more than to be allowed to be smart and to learn with teachers who value understanding and depth and deviation leads to decay and languor which cripples them for life and deprives the world of another shot at the great American novel, or the AIDS vaccine, or any of the hundreds of things they could already be capable of at 15 if only we would let them. General Education is a millstone around the necks of kids, casting them into the sea to fight the waves and come screaming for air with their strength ever waning or to give up and drown under the weight with no help from anybody.
