School board demands that special needs student removes varsity letter.

[OMG!WTF!]

This is another one of those, "My peer reviewed study beats your peer reviewed study". Here a recent one that quotes a study that says it's better all around to have disabled students mainstreamed...

http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/07...ing/73007.html

But that's not even the point. Obviously it comes down to the teachers and the curriculum. And even more so, I wouldn't want to be in a position where I have to explain to my kid why h/she can't go to a certain school or attend a certain class. The answers are a) you're too stupid to deal with anything less than a full complement of equals. Or b) disabled kids make you stupid. Just not a convesation I'm interested in having.

What I love the most about this, the kids involved are once again two steps ahead of the adults...

http://wpri.com/2015/04/01/n-provide...or-kansas-boy/

The kid has 10k letters.

[BuckminsterFuller]

OMG!WTF! - thanks, however, as with all the studies I have read, it centres on the benefit of the disabled students. There is a brief discussion of how testing divided the regular students into subgroups and the top subgroup was unaffected by having disabled students in the room but there was no comment on the other subgroups.

That is the issue I have with integration and mainstreaming. I can not fathom that when a disabled student has a fit/tantrum/loose bodily fluids it is not a detrimental distraction to the rest of the class. Unfortunately these situations are a reality in an integrated or mainstreamed classroom.

Also interesting that Driveway remains silent on his "literally hundreds of links" he can send me and would do so in just a few hours.......two weeks ago.