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To: bentway who wrote (281760)	3/27/2006 5:30:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571512

As for kids like your autistic kid that fourished under intense attention, but caused you to neglect the rest of your students - doesn't that problem suggest it's own answer? Some children WILL be left behind, always. Shoot for the greatest good for the greatest number. Do some educational triage. Teachers shouldn't have to be social workers. Well in an earlier post you were suggesting that teachers be parents. To be honest, I don't think people realize how bad things are in urban schools. The autistic boy is not the only problem in that class. At one point, I turned around and a girl was sticking her pencil into the wall socket. When I told her to stop, she got up and went to the electric pencil sharpener and started talking to the people there while the pencil was ground down to a stub. Meanwhile, another boy who has serious emotional problems and requires a personal attendant tried to detach the computer monitor from its base. The teacher estimates that in some of her classes 1/3 of the kids are special ed. I don't understand why there are so many disfunctional kids.........whether its normal or whether its gotten worse over the years. But when you talk about leaving kids behind, there are more than just one or two possibilities. We are talking some serious numbers. And btw the school at which I did my practicum was in a middle class neighborhood.....things are much worse in poorer neighborhoods.