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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take him to McDonald's this week to explore alternate career tracks.  My old HS calculus teacher used to say that there's a French fry machine out there for all of us.  :lol:[/quote]

OMG, I think we had the same Calc teacher! Mine also used to tell us if we didn't do well, we could just go to NOVA (whose mascot, he told us, was Ricky the Roadkill).

I laughed along at the time, but now that I'm older, I think that was really elitist and inappropriate![/quote]

Wow, as a parent of a kid with a disability who will likely start at our local community college, I have to say that stories like that are what makes school so incredibly hard for my kid.  [/quote]

+1.  Parent of a kid here w/ a disability who is finishing his first year at Montgomery College.  Yes, it was tough for him in HS because just as he was trying to find his place in the world, he ran across a teacher who lacked any empathy and compassion.  And the teacher, ironically, was his IEP Case Advocate. He struggled academically and emotionally for that year.  We spoke up and the next 2 years he got the best Advocates the school had to offer.  The BEST thing they did was learn what interested him and, outside of the core curriculum, make sure he was in classes that suited those interests.  He ended up in the school's Web Design and Application program and was able to ride that through to MC.  But we knew early on and accepted that the traditional college path was not for him.  But many of the teachers (especially of core subjects) seem to look down on folks like that in certain schools. [/quote]

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