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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (344702)	1/18/2003 9:09:06 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

My son was diagnosed (incorrectly) with Asperger's about 5 years ago, so I know where you are coming from. I went to an Asperger's support group for about a year. My son has NVLD, which is on the same spectrum as high functioning autism, but is different. My son also has a seemingly unrelated vision problem due to a structural abnormality in his eyes. We patched him and managed to get his vision from 20/200, to 20/50 (with correction). Still legally blind in the left eye, but better than it was. My son got me into teaching. And since I began my journey through the public schools I've been very impressed. Are there areas where we need to improve? You bet. But I would never want to do anything to weaken that system. Before I had kids I was four square for the public schools on principal. I think we all need common ground, and the public schools give that. Now that I have children I am pleased that I can also be 100% for the public schools because practically they are the best things I've ever seen. I've been in our best performing classrooms in our city, and in our worst, and I've got to say that teachers in all of the schools I've been in have been, for the most part, excellent. In all sorts of private businesses you meet ho hum people who don't seem to care about their jobs, but in the schools I meet people who really do care. I've never met so many people who really cared about the job they do, especially in elementary. I think the high school teachers tend to burn out, because the high school kids are often running open loop at home- with no parental support. Teaching- the toughest job you'll ever love.