My wife taught SPED for 20 years, across 3 states. You crackhead lurkers want to know what's been going on in those classrooms for 20 years? That little girl in the wheelchair is being tested on her ability to read and write. In kindergarten. The one who laughed at you for making animal sounds? Assuming he just wasn't smarter than you and knew what noise the animal actually makes, is probably highly autistic, and in the past, (possibly continuing into the future, depending on how education shakes out) got dumped into a regular class of butthole children who will treat him like dirt in the name of "inclusion". Same with the non-verbal little girl.
And who's been pushing for this "inclusion" and staying on level regardless of the child's conditions? Yes, Bush I started it with NCLB, but it has continued in the hands of brainless, mostly leftist politicians and unelected bureaucrats at the state and federal levels who tug heartstrings of you morons. Don't get me started on the "regular" kids who are bumped ahead to the next grade level without any of the skills they need to succeed in the previous two or three grades, much less the next ones.
I write this screed at work, listening to a middle school student who is labeled emotionally disturbed walk to the office from lunch griping about how she got kicked out of lunch for no reason and how our black principal, who kicked her out, hates black people.
kimbutgar gets half a point for actually being in a classroom, but clearly from their take, it's hard to see the light where their head is firmly planted.