Thursday, November 5, 2009
Blog 8
I have had a personal experience with a member of my family being diagnosed in middle school with ADHD. After many requests from this child's mother, he was tested by the school system and placed in a Learning Disabled Classroom. Basically this was a trailer where all the children with , behavior, emotional and learning disabilities were placed in a self contained classroom. The child was very intelligent, but was immediately labeled "one of those kids from the trailer". He struggled with his classwork as there was no teaching going on in this environment. He was outcasted by his peers and eventually decided to go to an alternative school. If possible, the situation got worse. During this time not one teacher took an interest in helping this child learn. He eventually quit school in high school. He later took his GED and scored extremely high. This was in a rural community, without many resources, but I feel surely someone should have not let this bright, creative child fall through the cracks.
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What did his parents do about this? I kow if that was my child I would be livid.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I feel that in most situations schools don't do enough to help the kids that need it, or they focus all their attention on the "worst kids" and forget all about ones that still need help too.
ReplyDeleteHis parents were livid, no one would take accountability for this child falling through the cracks. In hindsight, they wished they had moved to a different school district when they could not get any cooperation, but he did not want to leave his friends and home town he grew up in most of his life.
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