Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Petty

I would love to be able to say that all the teachers I work with treat students with special needs fairly--but I can't.

There is a core group of teachers that won't make modifications and won't teach to this population.

A friend of mine teaches the students with emotional disabilities.
He teaches them skills and strategies and slowly mainstreams them back out into regular ed.
He works with the teachers and provides them with help and guidance.

There is one teacher who refuses to help these students.
This teachers complains and shames these students.

My friend had had enough and called her on it.
He went to the administration and force her to stop discriminating.
She wasn't happy and said she wasn't done.

She is well connected in the town my friend lives in.
For the past 4 years he has coached his son's baseball team.
Last year they went to the finals.

This teacher called the head of the town rec department and blocked him coaching this year.

Can you believe how petty people can be?

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