Post by Aaron on Oct 23, 2006 1:49:36 GMT -5
voltage said:
Sounds like you enjoy being a victim. You keep saying 'i played it' then 'I wanted to learn'. Sounds like if you played it and wanted to learn it wouldnt be too hard to go the whole nine yards, say actually learning. Maybe your 'playing it' interfered with your 'learning it'. Who knows. My point is you cant blame everyone else for your choices. I happen to have a learning disability, which makes me not want to sit still for 5 minutes. Do I go scream at democrats and say "your 40 years of power has warped my mind", or do I go to a teacher and say "I wanted to learn but you didnt let me!".The schools use to force me to go to special ed basically. Yet, when we were there in the room kid we were handed books with the answers highlighted. And, if they weren't you can atl east hand it to the teacher and or manipulate the teacher into actually giving you the answers. How is that going to benefit you? How is that going to teach you anything?
Majority of us did just that. Because well we can and were teen's and were bored. But, I won't say anything more. You don't know the total story to that and you don't know what it was like. But, sure sure I'll play the bad guy Volt. I'll be the one that is just screaming and shouting.
Actually, I do neither. I don't go around and complain. Although, I do bring it up every now and then as a way to prove that the no child left behind act is well.....stupid. I'v been in some of the "best" *and richest* schools in this area. I'v also been in crap Grayson County..which has poor schools. Although not the worst. That belongs to Dallas School Systems.
Do you know how much a special ed kid is worth to the schools? 6 dollar's. They were trying to place me at a young age into the system when at that time I didn't need it. I'm not talking about the one's that are serverly disabled..but kids with learning disabilities. Yet, you wouldn't really know that unless you pulled out math.
The system that I was in at Grayson..isn't all that bad. But, I was in the system WAY, WAY to long. I remember two of my friends getting into it and all..and out of that class by the end of the year. So there are ways out...just that I was in it since the fourth grade. When my dad died.
Oh, and 99 percent of the kids in the system with me knew and played it. Even some of the regular kids would get angry at us when we went because they knew that they had highlighted and marked up books for us to go hunting for the answers'. Yet, also too alot of us later in high school really stopped going. Because, we actually wanted to try and learn something. Where as they were spoon feeding us. Although if it's a friday and it's a long, boring day yeah I would head upstairs to the room.
And, by us not going that ticked off the high school. Because, they wanted more money. So if more kids came in that were handicapped and all..they could get more money from the government. Do you see the cirlce? Probably not. You'd have to be in that system to really see how it's all works. Which is driven by the cold hard dollar sign's not about learning.
That was my reply to Volt's reply over on the New Orlean's board. I moved it here because really was becoming more about school's and education as oppose the katrina and the aftermath.