What special ed?  With the push to drop everyone into mainstream classes
many good special educators are out of work.  I work with a lot of kids with
learning disabilities that are pulled out of their mainstream classes for
reading, math, Occupational therapy, speech/language classes.  They have no
time to catch up with their class mates on other subjects.  I'm lucky though
some of my schools are title 21 so they have still have special classes for
kids and let me tell you, some of those teachers are great, it's amazing
what they do with some really tough kids.
And tell me how smart is it if you are having trouble retaining people that
you use standardized testing (that is poorly run in this state, yep FL and
TX both have trouble counting) for retention and salaries?  Guess what the
teachers end up having to teach?
Alright, enough with my soap box.

Beth the OT



> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Karen K. Perlow
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Democracy v. Republic
>
>
> In a message dated 11/28/2000 2:05:40 PM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << That is why I am furious about the legislation to
>  certify people to teach after they worked in business or some other
>  field after just taking a few education courses. >>
>
> Makes me wonder what that type of legislation would do to "special ed "
> teaching certification requirements.....I shudder to think.
>
> Karen :)
>