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Can we talk about how many parents are pushing to get their not-special-needs children on IEPs to either 1) get them test extensions and other grade padding accommodations or 2) explain away their child’s misbehavior or academic laziness?

There’s no such thing as individual learning styles

How many teachers have had an IEP student get away with behaviors another student would get in trouble for?

We used to tell kids that it was good if they were a little stressed about school—would keep them focused and showed they cared Now we tell them that they have a generalized anxiety disorder, their teacher is oppressing them, and mommy should complain to Mrs. Teacher’s principal

Ya know, I thought I’d get more blowback for kicking the proverbial special education hornets nest Seems like a lot of people realize our SPED system is in desperate need of reform Unfortunately, I’m pessimistic. Imagine the headlines if any politician or district supe tried?

1. Complaining about how someone else uses Twitter is lame. 2. I have extensively posted about what I believe are the changes we should make to reform education, so my account isn’t merely “kvetching.” Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” wrote a whole book and probably a hundred articles at this

Can we also talk about how some parents are pushing to get their non-special-needs child an IEP just two weeks before graduation — and it gets approved?

When I observed teachers, if there was no obvious room for improvement, here’s the thing: I DIDN’T NITPICK There doesn’t have to be a “grow” for every “glow” (barf) More often than not, your experienced teachers just need to be reminded that they’re doing great.

Same here. There's nothing wrong with saying, "You're doing a great job. Let me know if there's anything you need."

Considering dyslexia is defined as difficulty in reading accuracy, fluency, and/or comprehension despite adequate instruction and support, and that reading instruction today often fails to meet that bar, it’s reasonable to assume many diagnoses stem not from disability, but from

What are people’s ideas for reforming and improving special education?

What happens when you let iPads raise a generation and subsequently ask nothing of these children in school?

👏 👏 👏 Parents have the fundamental right to raise their children, but they do not have the right to abuse their children. Sex rejecting “transition” procedures are abuse.

“We need to teach students how to think, not what to think.” False The “what” is kind of the whole point of education. Which books? Which moments in and facts of history? What theories and formulas? That knowledge forms the tools that students use to think Want to think well

*taps mic* MUTILATING CHILDREN ISN’T “MEDICAL CARE”

Banning transition treatments for minors is an 80-20 issue The media always mistakes “we elitist, lefty journalists don’t like this” for “controversial” This is quite literally a unifying issue among normal Americans.