I'm going to be posting an article on this subject at All Voices - a site I was invited to and that will hopefully give me more exposure than I get here.
But a little background - I took a job as a teacher's aide at a school system near me, hoping it would mean I'd get to help out in the classroom. I'd gotten a master's in history but realized too late that I should also have gone for a teaching certificate. I got to help a little in a grade school classroom, as a special education aide, but the experience I had there so horrified me that the next time a special education assignment was handed to me (at the high school level) I turned it down, saying I'd need to talk to someone about the experience I had.
No one responded to talk to me.
The next time they called me, it was for lunchroom/recess supervisor. I guess I'm off their special education list now.
I just have to share the experiences I had at both assignments, and hopefully generate some conversation because I feel that there are changes that need to be made, and if I can do anything, anything at all, I have to try. I stand to be persecuted for it, but that's often the price of honesty. I will post a link at my website when this article is available for reading online.
Thanks for visiting.
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