why are there so many non-special ed questions here?
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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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I think it's fine for teachers to come here and ask for advice/suggestions to use as effective teaching tools/techniques. \n\n But when teachers-or any other professional for that matter- come here and ask the general public to provide them w/information that they need and is the basis needed to perform their job...in a teacher's case---curriculum, then maybe it does come across as being "lazy".\nBased on the past questions you've asked, there's not really anything there save but 1 or 2, that you couldn't have typed in your own search for....probably within the same amount of time it took for you to log in and post your question here....and the info found could've been printed out in the same or less time then it takes for you to keep checking for posted answers.\n\nTurn the table here...how do you feel when you see students on here asking us to provide them with the FLAT OUT answer to their homework questions--with NO explanations.  They don't want to know nor do they care HOW it's done, they just want to GET it done.   Perhaps that's the light some see your questions in?
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Regrettably, many of us are more interested in our two points (thank you) than being serious.\n  \nFor the same reason as the class clown.\n\nFor the same reason, I guess, that so many people don't use spell check.
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I teach a self-contained special ed. class and have been teaching SPED for 24 years....and no, I don't make any more than the regular ed. teachers even though my paperwork load is ALOT more, I have no textbooks and I have to make my own teaching materials, and I have to spend hours and hours more time in meetings and deal with horrible, demanding parents who expect me to "cure" their child.....I couldn't imagine doing anything else though   :)
668744
I'm not sure that's true. There seems to be a lot of response to provocative questions. Religion, immigration, racism are hot topics. There is a lot of response to kids in trouble -- pregnant 15-year-olds, depressed 14-year-olds etc. Pregnancy and child care questions often elicit a significant response. Easy homework questions get lots of responses, because people like to show off how smart they are. Some questions attract the jokesters. Really technical or specific questions may get few answers because only a few people may know how to replace a carburetor or how much manufactured homes cost in California. Then there's just the random factor of timing -- who's there when a question comes up. There's an interesting ebb and flow in the kinds of questions. Homework questions, for example, tend to increase as the night goes on. I'm surprised at how many come up after midnight! It is interesting to watch the trends as you stay on Answers over a period of weeks or months. Certain questions occur quite often. How can there possibly be so many kids who have no clue who Leonardo DaVinci is. Incredible. Anyway, I find Answers a fascinating place to hang around.
383808
This is not a "special education" question. It belongs in the "higher education" category.
1150697
Some people lack the ability to ask intelligent questions.  Furthermore, they don't know how or are too lazy to provide intelligent answers, to many of the tough questions posted here.  Notice all the one word answers... they only want the 2 points.
17460
Well there r different types of quiz masters here - some of them need detailed information regarding certain subjects; certain others who r trying to test others' general/specific knowledge; certain others who r just time wasters; some others who really need help - sympathisers; and of course certain half cracks! People cut and paste long answers because they are 'long' - they do not have the time to type it - they could help other genuine quizzers. Further some of the answers are easily available on the net - for such people the best answer is just a link or even more punishing - copying & pasting it so that they are forced to read it!
350962
This question belongs in the "higher education" category, or in a business/trades category, not in "special education."
780586
Do the "normal" children get less attention than the "special" ones?  I have 4 kids in school.  2 with no issues.  One with ADD and Dyslexia, and another that is just a slow starter.  The ones who have issues get wonderful amounts of attention and help.  Now I have not noticed any thing with my 2 that are good in school.  But  another parent in our area decided not to send her child to this elementary school, because a substitute teacher for our school told her that the "normal" ones are pretty much ignored.  I have thought a lot about this lately, and think it would be a pretty controversial thing to pursue, as we all of course want    the ones with special needs to get the attention they need, but at what cost?  How do you demand equal attention for the others without sounding callous?
301041
I think that some questions stir something inside of us.Some questions are controversial,while others are not.Some questions are easily answered while others are answered by text book explanations.Hmmmm I wonder how many answers this question will get?
78156
This is not a question but it only goes to show that all questions aren't legetimate.I think some people just don't have anything else to do including myself sometimes.Most but not all questions could be answered anyway by typing them into any search engine like Yahoo or Google which is what most people who answer them do including myself.
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Probably because there are some ignorant people out there.  There are some people who genuinely come to "Y Answers", looking for serious answers.  While others view it as an opportunity to ask irrelevant or sometimes disgusting questions.  Therefore, when you have a good number of people being silly and derogatory in their questions, you'll get silly and derogatory responses, and at times those people will spill over onto questions that are quite sincere.  I'm not trying to excuse anyone's behavior. I'm just thinking maybe that's the reason why so many people act so immature on here.  I must admit, though, that it doesn't bother me as much anymore because there are 10 responsible, fun and respectful people for every one of those ignorant ones.
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how is this special education?
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Ha! I love how how you categorized your question under "special education" :). Funny.
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I agree that it gets tiring wading through questions that have no value. It seems that there are a couple of reasons for posting the same question. Most of the duplicates I see are very juvenile and show no imagination, so I assume these are being posted by unsupervised children and ignore them. The others are there when the asker doesn't feel that they've gotten a satisfactory answer the first time.
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I dont know, why are you?\n\nI am sick of people who keep using the special education section as a place to ask anything they like. especially when its something inapropriate, something they obviously already know the answer to, or something that doesnt even have an answer. For goodness sake Why would you ask "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"\nThey cant chuck wood, thats all that matters!. And this question. come on. How rude can you be. People think of special education as a joke and im sick of that. they use the term as disses and thats not right. even teachers do this sometimes. People in special education have feelings too! In fact alot of us (yes us, I am not ashamed to say I am in Special ed.) are more sensitive than others. Many people are in special ed because they been through things. Many of us have and if not currently at least have had depression at one point in our lives. Sometimes this is the cause of being in special ed, sometimes this being an indirect result of it. It needs to stop being taken as a joke. And I know I am not the only one who feels this way.\nThank you for your time\n---- hpfanatic1130