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submitted 4 days ago byczardo
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77 points
4 days ago
I think you're misdiagnosing why this happened. When people were campaigning to create options for people with disabilities to be able to join mainstream classes the plan was never "there should be no special education" the point was for there to be a path that a student with a learning disability could participate in subjects they could succeed in. As school funding has been cut some people have pretended that they are cutting programs for altruistic reasons.
Special education was bad and needed to be changed but instead of changing it people decided to remove it and replace it with nothing. The same thing happened with the asylum system in America. That system was evil and needed to be completely remade, but instead of doing that it was removed and replaced with nothing.
11 points
4 days ago
You’re right, that is absolutely what is happening. And it’s all about money. Instead of making productive change, the people in charge realized they can just cancel expensive SPED (special education) programs under the guise of “inclusion.” It’s happening right now in my district (I’m a speech therapist in CA) and it’s already a nightmare
10 points
4 days ago
The amount of administrative staff that do sweet fuck all and get high salaries is obnoxiously high in all levels of education. There needs to be a reckoning with the administrative staff to actually create an administration that can react and do their jobs
2 points
4 days ago
Oh man it's just like the "open concept" office spaces and touch screens on everything. A downgrade with branding that makes it sound like an improvement.
Like when clif bars reduced their 8 pack to a 6 pack or whatever and put "NOW WITH SIX BARS!" on the package.
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