I spent the day in Indianapolis at a teacher training session about how to include students with learning disabilities more fully in the general education classes of schools.
So we spent a lot of time talking about how each class of the school day should be designed in such a way to meet ALL the needs of EVERY student. (And it was good and useful stuff, don't get me wrong.)
Along about mid-afternoon, in a brief aside, the presenter bemoaned the fact that we expect students to sit through 7 or 8 different subjects every day.
I think she called it "crazy".
And I happen to agree.
But if the system is crazy, why should we expend effort to integrate the students with learning disabilities into that very system?
It's like fixing the door on a shed that is on the verge of utter collapse - roof, windows, walls and floor.
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