Reply #137: Insanity [View All]

The whole idea of grouping kids with learning disabilities and mild intellectual disabilities with the kids who have emotional and behavioral disorders is absolutely insane. And the notion of certain emotional disorders being classified as "nonverbal learning disabilities" so the kids can be grouped with mild/moderate LD'ers is appalling. It's also insulting!

I have ADHD and dyslexia and was at a school for kids with special needs (from 3rd through 6th grade), and I sure as shit would have been a seriously messed up teenager (more than I already was) if I had been in classes that are like today's "LD" classrooms.

I briefly taught at a special ed school two years ago (briefly meaning two months). I was told the school was for those with mild to moderate LD, that the students I would be working with would be primarily AD/HD and mild intellectual disabilities. After the third time that a particular Asperger's kid went nuts (physically assaulting at least 5 faculty/administration, throwing my and another teacher's classes into upheaval, forcing the Junior High into "lockdown mode", screaming and pounding on walls and doors, etc) I quit; as I had explained to the headmaster before, I work with kids with Learning Disorders/Disabilities, NOT Emotional Disturbances/Disorders.