Why is it so few people asking questions in this category  actually know what special education is?
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I'm beginning to think that many of these people, especially the non-native speakers, seem to think that "special" indicates the "other" category, or that the particular question is a "special" one (kind of like the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live... "Now, isn't that special?...lol!).\n\nThere are also many people, especially the kids asking for homework help, that just may not pay much attention to which category they're selecting.\n\nIt does get annoying though, doesn't it?
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Do you mean full-time special education class?\n\nDemerits: \nIsolation from the regular education community. The adult workforce is not segregated... you don't get put in a different work area because you have a learning or phyiscal disability. You are expected to have production levels like anyone else on the job. Special education is supposed to provide students with the supports they need now, so that they can build the extra skills they need to perform as much as possible like everyone else as an adult. \n\nPerception by the rest of the world of people facing learning or physical challenges as being separate, different, and lesser, because most people will have no direct experience to teach them differently.\n\nReduced access to curriculum, computers/technology, and other materials, because the regular ed classes tend to get access to the new stuff first.\n\n\nMerits:\nTeachers highly trained in individualizing instruction to meet strengths and weaknesses of each student, and in specific disability needs and instructional methodology.\n\nFull-day instruction defined by student level of development and need, not leveled averages that are provided with a "sink or swim" mentality like in regular ed.\n\nSmaller student to teacher ratio, so that the teacher has LOTS more time to spend with each student.\n\nIsolation from regular ed student teasing, reduced issues with self-esteem because the student is not constantly comparing him/herself to students performing at regular ed levels.\n\n\nFull-time special ed classes have their place... they help students new to special ed programming become academic achievers at their own individual levels, and for students with severe/profound needs (whether intellectual, physical, or emotional) it provides a safe and highly-individualized learning environment in which they can maximize their true potential.\n\nHowever, for students who have underlying normal or better intelligence (learning disabilities, physical impairments, hearing or vision issues, etc.)... if they spend any time in a self-contained class it should only be for a short while. Students with disabilities should spend as much time as possible in regular ed... especially for science, social studies, fine arts, etc. where modifications to student response methods are easier. Pull-out programming that provides specialized instruction should only be for a portion of the day, focusing on the student's specific areas of academic weakness. Without the gradual return to the regular ed classroom, the separation may be lifelong and permanent. We want these kids to be productive members of the workforce and their communities... and they need the exposure to that level of expectation, building their own coping skills gradually to a point where they can spend all their time in regular ed... successfully.
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This question is miscategorized.\n\nSpecial Education is about education and parenting for children with special needs.
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And this is in special education because.........?
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Why is this in Education?
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Ha! I love how how you categorized your question under "special education" :). Funny.
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I've been going to every question that isn't special ed related and cut-and-pasting the following in the answer:\n\nThis question is miscategorized.\n\nSpecial Education refers to the education and parenting of children with special needs.\n\nI tried reporting the questions as "miscategorized" to Yahoo, but they haven't ever done anything.\n\nI think I've figured out a few of categories for the miscategorized questions.\n\n1) Garble, someone trying to be funny or just messing around.\n2) Someone trying to be offensive (especially the ones with the cruder sexual content).\n3) Kids asking about homework and not really knowing how to post.\n4) Non-English speakers who have been confused by English idiomatic grammar, and who think "special education" means education for specializations (e.g. computers, engineering, etc.).  There seem to be tons of those from India.\n\nMy main question isn't why these are happening (people are, after all, well, people...), but why Yahoo is so understaffed or whatever that they can't keep up with abuse reports so that miscategorized questions are appropriately moved or removed.\n\nI and other "specialist" answer writers have emailed them with suggestions such as...\n\n--If a question is reported as miscategorized by 5 or more different people at a participant level of 5 (or 6) or above, it should be automatically deleted. A Yahoo staffer need only get involved in the question writer appeals the delete.\n--After a person asks a question and selects a category, an additional page comes up showing the person's question, and giving a simple definition for the category, with the prompt "Please review your question and the category you have selected. If you are sure your question fits in this category, please press "continue." If not, please press the back button and select a new category."\n\nAnd so on...seen anything like either of those yet? I don't think so. Sigh.\n\nI would like to call on all serious question and answer writers, who are in this category because they are actually interested in this topic, to cut and paste the above suggestions (just the suggestions, not this whole posting) into a feedback response to Yahoo (see the bottom of your screen...in teeny, tiny letters there's a link that says "Tell us what you think").\n\nMaybe if enough messages come in with the above suggestions, they'll actually do something about the miscategorization problem, and we won't have to go through 20 questions to find 1 that really is of interest to us.
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There are little to no resources to help special needs children in private schools. They are not equipped to handle it. Things like IEPs, special ed classes, etc., are usually only offered in public schools.
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I don't think that's a Special Education related question. Special Education refers to the provision of services to kids with disabilities. You might get more answers in a different category.
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No... being in special education does NOT mean you are stupid.\n\nAs a matter of fact, there is only ONE out of 13 categories in which a person is a very slow learner...Mental Retardation.\n\nALL the other categories are NORMAL or higher smarts, with something keeping that person from being able to learn as fast as they should given their smarts. That something could be a learning or language disability, or health issues, or emotional problems, or physical disabilities, or hearing or vision problems, or social skills difficulties, and so on.\n\nIf you are in special ed, you learn DIFFERENTLY than most people. You are NOT stupid.
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They teach it alright, and I'm not so sure why people post these questions. Maybe it's to be funny, or maybe they really want to know what this stuff  is ASAP.
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Many of the worlds most intelligent and famous people throughout history had special needs. One example is Albert Einstein.  He was doing very poorly in school and the teachers did not like him and thought he was just a slacker. His mother had to take him out of school and decided to home school. He was a genius. \n\nMost people who are special needs eg. ADD,ADHD,DYSLEXIA, etc usually have 'above' average intelligence. The can have memory problems and seem out of it but anyone who knows them, is aware that this is not about intelligence.\n\nPeople who do not understand them tend to 'treat' them poorly and unless they get 'a lot' of strong support elsewhere they can fail at life because of their very low self esteem - but not because they are dumb. \n\nSo it is mistreatment that leaves them winding up in prisons, correction facilities etc. Many are already convinced that they are 'losers' in grade 'one.' They have been destroyed while still babes - unless there is intervention. Public abuse because of ignorance is their real downfall.  \n\nDon't listen to the comments about SPELL CHECK. Everybody makes mistakes, and your question was 'perfectly' understandable. Only a moron would have trouble understanding it. The others are just being cruel.
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Every child and adult in America falls under some kind of learning disabled label.  Apparently, EVERYONE has something wrong with them.  Its unrelated to your article, but I've got this sneaking suspicion that the problem doesn't lie within the student, but the teacher.  Remember when one classroom for all grades was the pinacle of education.  When people didn't fit in there was something wrong with THEM.  Ponder please.\n\nHappy trails.
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This isn't a Special Education related question. Special Edcuation refers to the provision of services to kids with disabilities.
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Whatever it is, it's not a Special Education related question. Special Education is the provision of services to kids with disabilities. You might get more and better answers under a different category.
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This question is miscategorized.\n\nSpecial Education is about the education and parenting of children with special needs.
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This belongs in a different topic, not "special education." What the heck are you asking about anyway?