Were you in special ed classes in school and?

I was in special education classes in school. I took resource room, self-contained classes, speech and counseling. I felt that it was a disservice to me because it really didn’t help me at all. I didn’t like resource room because the teacher was too PUSHY. The self-contained classes were better because the teacher taught me skills and they weren’t as pushy as the resource room teachers. Speech was just okay. I thought it was stupid because I didn’t take it when I went to the alternative high school (They didn’t have speech there). And then when I went back to the regular high school, I had to take speech. I liked the counseling because I had a good relationship with the psychologist. I graduated high school in 2007.

I have an LD too and things were slightly different for me. However, I went to school in the 80’s and 90’s after the laws for special education had gone through many changes. I’m not suprised to hear that you really didn’t do much in your special ed classes. You need to look at the time you were in school and take that into consideration. As I mentioned before the laws have gone through many changes between when you and I went to school and have gone through even more changes since then. Now, students are supposed to have and IEP and teachers are supposed to show proof that students are making progress towards their goals. I don’t think that students had that when you went. Also, IDEA n(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) didn’t come about until about 1975.

I was only in special ed classes till i was in 4th grade then mainstreamed after that I wish I would have had it longer cause it would have helped me big time. How I know this is if there were kids that had LD that were in the same class as me they would have a helper be in the room and it seemed that I would get A’s or B’s in those classes whereas in the regular classes I got basically D’s and F’s. Oh by the way I was mainstreamed in 1990 and I graduated in 1998

I was in the slow learners math class. Some teachers I had actually called me stupid and it just made the kids meaner to me. I did graduate from high school but just barely, the day I graduated I cried but not tears of boo hoo I will miss this school it was more like Yippee! I am getting the h e double hockey sticks out of here! You are so not alone, back then I thought I was the only one that just didn’t get it.

yes that was me as well, I had to get my education on my own at the library and through my friends find yourself a tutor and don’t ever give up