Its amazing you got out of it. They also tried to put me in special ed. I have friends who went in that class. In my highschool they were finger painting at the age of 18, it was degrading. At any rate it warms me to see that you’ve not listened to their nonsense and succeeded by your own merit.
My mom’s a teacher’s assistant at a public school dealing with special education students ranging from minor learning disabilities to major disabilities. She always goes on these rants about how poor the other TAs are and how most of the children aren’t recieving the proper attention. She always says how some of the younger TAs are texting and into their own dramatic lives, taking time away from the struggling child that desperately needs help.
It truly is sad to see some of these children just completely fall behind, yet everyone in this country screams for more funding of public schools (when this doesn’t work at all)[:'(].
Make no mistake about it, many of the problems we have today with our youth, can EASILY be traced back to public education.
I decided around the beginning of grade 7 that I didn’t want to go anymore. The school called my parents and demanded/threatened that they force me to go. So, I got kicked out of the house every morning until I started refusing to get on the bus. I then got dragged to the school itself. I was taken in a police car once. The school also encouraged my parents to punish me for not doing assignments, to do anything necessary to make me comply. A game of trying of every kind of torment at home and school ensued for about 6 months until one final day I decided that I would have to be carried into the classroom feet first, kicked my desk across the room and had a sub teacher seated beside me as guard. I can’t tell the rest of what happened that day for legal reasons. The result was I was expelled. That was the happy ending I wanted all along.
The story goes on for years, but I don’t like thinking about it too much at one time.