[Ohiogift] Airplaine instruction follow-up

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Friends:

Below are two comments that were attached to the "Airplane Seat theory of education" blog.

It seems to me that they encapsulate the problem TAG advocates are facing across the country.  Their children need services but many educators believe that school is all about learning to get along, not about educating them to their full potential.  Can we do both? 

I wonder whether the "special educator" who sent in the second message also believes that Special Education children deserve the opportunity to experience "deprivation, setbacks and failure" as a regular part of their school experiences.

Margaret 


 Salem OR Mom

9:05 AM on October 7, 2014

My son was a "pick me". He is 14 and in Calculus and AP Physics along with his "regular" Honors classes. He has one of the highest SAT scores for his age in the country. He was trying to tell you something back in 2nd grade, were you listening or were you annoyed that he wasn't staying with the group?
A kid trying to show you that he may be drastically in the wrong place is not a predictor of ASR or anything else but that a child needs a different environment.
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thespecialeducator

11:18 AM on October 7, 2014

He turned out well despite his "pick me" attitude in second grade. But he probably was a pain in the you know what to his teacher and all those around him. There is nothing wrong whatsoever with reminding yourself that the world doesn't cater to your or yours, we share this planet (and tight spaces on planes) with many other people, all of whom are just as annoyed as you are for equally good reasons, and (worst of all for Americans) a bit of inconvenience is actually good for the soul as it teaches us how to handle things like deprivation, set backs, and failure that life routinely throws at all of us.