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Special Education and its Failings
Special Education and its Failings By Leah Zanzucchi-Marroquin When someone talks about their area of job interest is working with special needs kids, the thing I think about is how is the classroom conducted? Are the teachers actually teaching the kids or only sitting at their desks watching them? Are they shaming them? I was placed in Special Education when I was five years old. I was mainstreamed in middle-school. I know Special Education’s failings from the inside. I am trying to liberate myself here, of this label Selective Mutism… Having been gone through the failings of the Special Education System I am strongly opposed to the shaming of a child into talking. I guess the premise is the child is being bad for not talking; talking is the word that was used. The School I am writing about is Franklin Elementary of Syracuse New York. I am in the fourth grade. My desk is placed against a wall in the corner to socially isola...
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