[walken]Needs more Local6.[/walken]

Oh good.  We have a user named Priapism.

She looks like she's thinking about something else.

Yeah, like, "why ain't I gettin' fucked anymore?"

Were they in the middle of an "Eiffel Tower"?

Perhaps the "Exceptionally Short Bus" flies, or something.

phreddy wrote:

all three are in "exceptional student education,"

They used to be just "special".  Now they're "exceptional"?  Fuck, I can't keep track of all this PC bullshit.

Well, you know it comes from the parents.  First, we couldn't call them idiots, then we couldn't call them morons, or imbeciles.  Then we couldn't call them retarded, whether they were educable, trainable, or vegetative.  Slow is out.  Handicapped?  Nope, can't use that either.  It's all about providing their required place in public education where they don't interfere with regular education and allocating funds for it.  It seems the parents want it to be a "black" budget item, the way they object to every label given.  It may as well be, the way their funding dominates the debates far out of proportion to the net positive impact on society.  Having two GATE-qualified daughters who got virtually no support in the public schools, and as a regular-education teacher myself, it leaves me feeling like a black guy with his dick in a bowl of pudding: "Fuckin' dis custid."  Don't get me wrong--I do support the efforts of the special--'scuse me, exceptional--educators, and I'm damned glad they are there because if they were not, I piss enough people off that I'd be assigned there.  The parents all think their little gems are going to be like the one-in-a-million story of the learning-disabled or developmentally-delayed child who actually makes it through regular education and beyond, into being a valued member of society.  Then again, I see the same thing with the parents who are convinced their spawn will be sports stars to buy them nice cars and homes, and overschedule them with activities, then terrorize the other kids, coaches, and officials when things don't go their way.  Honestly, parents need to let their kids be kids, whether they are normal, geniuses, or tards, and stop living their own, incomplete, unfulfilling lives through their kids!

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Baywolfe wrote:

Isn't Special or Exceptional what we used to call the smart kids?

Exceptional used to be interchangeable with Gifted (perhaps 'special' has been regifted). If they still use Special for the Olympics, then I guess it supersedes mere PC-ness. I wonder what they call them in Beijing. Other than "secretly murdered shame babies," that is.

whiskytangofoxtrot wrote:

Don't get me wrong--I do support the efforts of the special--'scuse me, exceptional--educators, and I'm damned glad they are there because if they were not, I piss enough people off that I'd be assigned there.

I hope I'm not the only one here old enough to remember all same age kids in the same class, regardless of their abilities, at least through grade school. The tards socialized with everyone and the brighter kids looked after them, made sure they weren't picked on. Which geniuses decided that proven 'mainstreaming' solution wouldn't work?

George Orr wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Were they in the middle of an "Eiffel Tower"?

It's rare these days for me to run across a sexual term I have to look up.  Point to you, Goober.

Thanks, you saved me from looking it up.

choad wrote:

Hardly. We moved everywhere. I attended rural, suburban and city schools, public and private; all of it before you were a gleam in your daddy's eye and the world changed. So let history record it's all your fault, Pale.

Since when did the failings of educational psychology from the 1950s onward land at my doorstep? All I'm saying is, your description of a charmed youth lived across the various socioeconomic strata of this country seems counter to what has been understood about children for a lot longer than either of us have been alive. That they can be cruel, insensitive, and thoughtless, and entirely capable of depredating the weaker members among them. Are you implying you're much older than William Golding's novel? (I'm sure I can go back a few centuries, for other references to poorly behaved chilluns, if you'd like)