Remove SN from Recent Topics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of SN child here. Please keep the forum listed in Recent Topics. I appreciate all perspectives and welcome anyone with or without a SN child to chime in on any topic. I wouldn't want to reduce the number of people who access the forum and might potentially learn something useful. After all, "special needs" is a very wide topic.

+1

If people want to request a closed-membership support forum, that's a different issue.

This is an anonymous internet forum, the same tired debates are going to come up here every time. SN families don't get a free pass, whether we like it or not. Honestly, my choices not related to SN parenting (SAH, breastfeeding, buying organic, no TV, etc.) get attacked on DCUM far more frequently and I just take that as what it is. I don't like perpetuating the stereotype that we are delicate petals who are so fragile as parents or SN kids that we need an internet bubble around us. If that's the way you feel, go to a closed-membership support forum and/or request that one be created here. Or just don't read anonymous postings that hurt your feelings, in whatever forum.

+1000000%. There are lots and lots of closed support forums, go there if you don't want your feelings hurt, OP. I like THIS SN board b/c SNs is treated like any other topic. Please keep it in recent topics.

Once again, though this has been mentioned several times. This was not my idea originally and it was not my idea to start this thread. I have no idea why so many of you feel the need to attack me, its just weird. Please go back and read Jeff's posts.

[Anonymous]

Please keep it in recent topics.

I am a SN mom and I only go to "recent topics." I would not see the posts if it was removed from "recent topics."

[Anonymous]

I access DCUM exclusively through recent topics. I would never go to the special needs section on my own, but feel I have learned a lot from the reading the conversations that I wouldn't get elsewhere.

And it all turned out to be helpful when I realized my DS has writing issues and wanted to get support from the school.

I'd like to keep it easily accessible for me and the way I use DCUM.

[Anonymous]

NP and mom of child with SN. I would prefer that SN be removed from Recent Topics. I am echoing others, I know, but I would vote for this change in order to get fewer "accidental" posts by posters who do not realize a question is a special needs issue. It seems that a number of controversy-starting posts came from people who stated afterwards, sometimes apologetically, that they had accessed a thread through Recent Topics and had not been aware of the context. Of course, I am not voting to restrict access in any way--neither is OP.

[Anonymous]

I would prefer to keep it on recent topics. My child has mild to moderate special needs. Many of the things discussed on this board are applicable to him, but many of the things discussed on General Parenting are as well. I would like to be able to see both when I click on recent topics. I would come to and participate in this forum much less if it was not part of recent topics.

[Anonymous]

NP here.

I vote to keep it in Recent Topics. Removing it will not achieve the stated goal; anyone who wants to cause trouble in an anonymous setting will. Removing it takes it off the radar from people who can benefit from this forum.