Churchill Getting a New Principal

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry the word normal triggers you but it's the most appropriate word for the conversation. I'm sure you prefer differently abled or some other BS term that helps you cope with having abnormal kids. And no, I am not normal. But I also wasn't coddled... er... sorry... accommodated to get through school. Life won't accommodate your kids either. They'll either sink or swim on their abilities. And again, should low or normal IQ kids get accomodations so they cantry to perform at a top level?

Among other things, the ADA and IDEA don't "coddle", they allow for access.

I can't wait until you're stuck in a wheelchair for a couple weeks to see what having accommodations really means.

Coddled = Allow for access. Again, should people with low IQs be allowed access to GT/magnet programs / AP classes?

The flaw and implicit bias in your statement about students with disabilities is that they have a low IQ. That is simply an ignorant misconception.

This thread is about Churchill, so there are no GT or magnet programs at Churchill. However, students with disabilities should have equal access to those programs as well.

For AP programs, again you seem to not be knowledgeable about the entrance requirements for the classes. Non-disabled students do not need to have a specific score on an IQ test so it would be illegal for such a requirement to only apply for disabled students.

Finally, the following people had/have disabilities but they have made monumental contributions to society. If these people were high school students at Churchill, should they be dissuaded from taking AP classes?

Stephen Hawkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Elon Musk
Richard Branson
Albert Einstein

People with disabilities have a wide range of strengths and weaknesses. They tend to be resilient people because of the challenges they face. Atypical neurological development also sometimes gives people unique gifts. They look at the world in new ways to solve problems. They are your entrepreneurs, inventors, and scientists.

Special Education is just good teaching practices that teaches to a student’s strengths instead of their weaknesses. Many best practices in education actually began in Special Education so all students benefit when universal design is used in classrooms.

Students with disabilities deserve equal access. They want opportunities, not lower standards or handouts.

P. S. atypical means abnormal. If the word normal triggers you but the word atypical doesn't, you're a weirdo or perhaps autistic. The fact that you rigidly fixated on Churchill not having a GT program because it's a high school instead of being able to extrapolate that I was referring to these programs in general, points to the 2nd one.

In the context of child development, atypical means unusual. When a child is comprehensively tested for an IEP, a child with atypical development will demonstrate unusual patterns of strengths and weaknesses. The key to learning is teaching to a child’s strengths, not weaknesses.

For example, if a child is dyslexic, they might receive equal access to an AP social studies class with the use of a computer that reads text to them. The child still does the work, just in a different format.

FYI some high schools have GT programs, just not Churchill - Walter Johnson has a GTLD program for example. The GTLD program accepts students from out of boundary much like IB and magnet programs do.

And normal means usual. I don't know why the word normal triggered some people.

Are dyslexic kids not allowed to use computers that read to them in AP classes?