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Amy has a good idea. Children with special needs only want what we all want: To be accepted. I had the same FB experience as the rest of you, and I, too, like this particular post. Thanks for giving me something TRUE to post! The actual nationally recognized Special Education Week is March 22 — 26th…. Hope this helps with all the trivial demands…. The man who wrote that article on the examiner posted on it a month ago saying this: Lenny Giardino 1 month ago.
This was an initiative by a support group to have a national week of recognition. It was forwarded to me. I did not have the time to travel to Washington DC, talk to Governor Patterson, or state ed to approve the initiative. My intro was misleading because I did not state the group. My error and I will retract the article if others feel it was misleading. My daughter posted the initial script on facebook today and it resonated for me.
However, not knowing of Special Ed Week led me to this site. Children with special needs only want what we all want: to be accepted. Whether you read this during Special Education Week or any other week of the year, this post is in honor of all people, especially children, who learn a little differently.
I looked and read many sites and it does seem that there are various dates posted. LOL just kidding , but seriously.. Just because there are 5 school days?
I personally feel it would be better to have it for 7 days so we parents of a child with special needs can do something special with them over the weekend. Maybe get store and fast food places to even get involved to help promote others of this day by giving out a lollipop, or a sticker, or a free drink, or whatever. I think we should all post it as….
Those with special needs just want to be treated like anyone else. They may need some additional help getting around or such, but they are human just like you and I and deserve to be treated that way. Please know it is inappropriate to stare, at anyone at anytime, rather ask what disorder they have and they or the person they are with, will be more than happy to answer you.
Please repost this if you agree and want to see special education week become national. I am more than willing to do all that I can to see this happen. I have some connections here in Pennsylvania where I may be able to pull some strings, but no promises.
I, personally, am tired of us parents having to fight for everything our child needs when we already have enough on our hands. God bless! Perhaps this will go around now. I think that nicely altering the original to respond to it is an excellent idea. Thanks for sharing! I disagree. Treat them like regular kids. I mean, pay attention to the fact that you need to adapt to them, but just completely smothering them will make the other kids feel neglected and will make that one child feel embarrassed.
All we want and ever wanted is to be treated normally. We are unique. We simply want to be loved and cared about as much as you. All we want is to be treated normally, nothing special. It seems that those who have special needs and replied in here are all saying the same thing…. Again, I personally feel that this week should be devoted more toward educating kids and adults too about those who have special needs, what it means, how to treat them, respect them and understand them.
Perhaps no education issue generated more heat if not light over the last decade than the Common Core State Standards. Bush and governors that set the stage for standards-based education reform. The majority of states agreed to adopt the standards, along with aligned assessments developed by state-level consortia. But the consensus around the standards soon began to deteriorate.
Some critics alleged that the common core did not in fact represent a step forward for standards. Others claimed the Obama administration crossed a line separating encouraging states to adopt them to coercing them.
And still others said the way common-core tests would be used for teacher and school accountability was inappropriate, fueling broader skepticism about how standardized tests were misused by policymakers. The number of states participating in the consortia-backed tests fell off a cliff. The standards themselves have proven more durable, even as many states loudly distanced themselves from them. But they still crop up as boogeymen for conservatives looking to establish their political bona fides.
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Supreme Court in , when the justices ruled in Janus v. The ruling also required workers to affirmatively opt in to the union before those fees could be deducted from their paychecks. However, its long-term impact on their membership and political strength is still to be determined. The scale of the shooting—the deadliest ever at a K school in the U. It also sparked new conversations about school safety and re-ignited divisive debates about gun laws, school police, and responding to the needs of disconnected and emotionally isolated students.
After months of tearful testimony and activism and a task force led by Vice President Joe Biden to push for new gun control measures , Congress failed to pass any new gun laws or to close loopholes in the background check system. But there was action at the grassroots level as nascent advocacy groups took advantage of the ability to quickly share information and form communities through social media, creating tools to track gun incidents in schools and keep the issues at the forefront online.
The events sparked a new youth activism movement around gun violence prevention. And President Trump formed a federal school safety commission, chaired by DeVos, the education secretary, that recommended schools consider arming educators.
This has left policymakers struggling to respond, while also being mindful of issues like student privacy, civil rights, limited budgets, and concerns about creating overly fortified school buildings. Those changes added urgency for policymakers and educators to address changing student demographics.
Schools saw big swings in how civil rights laws were enforced as Washington transitioned between two presidential administrations with very different philosophies about federal oversight. The directives were met with applause from civil rights groups. But critics said the documents amounted to federal overreach and that the Obama administration was creating new law under the guise of interpreting what was already on the books. In her first act in office, she rescinded the guidance on transgender students.
She retracted the discipline directive after critics said it made schools unsafe. She proposed new rules on sexual assault and harassment that allowed schools to raise the burden of proof for accusers.
And she changed civil rights investigation procedures to focus more narrowly on individual complaints, rather than scanning data for systemic patterns. DeVos said those changes were necessary to respect local decisionmaking and to respond to complaints more speedily. As the charter school movement entered its third decade , arguments over school choice—its role in improving outcomes, its successes, and its limits—grew into a roar.
But charter advocates pointed to stagnant academic outcomes in the U.
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