Reply #5: Heaven forbid special-ed [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

students should be given any help. How dare they take away education resources from those who actually deserve it? :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

Sorry for the seeming acidity, but as someone with a learning disability who has a son with Asperger's Syndrome, comments like yours really frost my cookies. And as someone whose parents are teachers, I can damn well guarantee you that most school districts skimp on special ed students and deeply resent having to do anything for them at all.

I'm forty, so most special ed programs came along too late to help my learning disability; it wasn't even diagnosed until my sophomore year of high school, meaning I went through ten years of hell in school, knowing I was smart yet not being able to figure out why things were so damned difficult for me. By the time it was diagnosed, it was really too late to do anything substantial to help. So I've suffered with that every day of my life.

And my son has Asperger's Syndrome, I had to fight the school district tooth and nail to get what he needed as far as his IEP was concerned, and it wasn't really that much. Had I not had parents as teachers and had I not, therefore, been pretty education-savvy as far as how the system works, I probably would have finally given up in frustration. And my son would have suffered for it. So please, try and think before you make comments like that.