A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:
in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 4/15/05 10:22 PM:
A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:
As for "assigning a boss" to a disabled person, every person who enters
the
workforce gets assigned a "boss," and every person needs to learn how to
be
"bossed" in one way or another. That's life. Get used to it.
Why should people with disabilities "get used to" being bossed by
non-disabled people?!?
It's not just "disabled people," it's *everyone.* All children will
ultimately grow up and become members of the workforce, and they will be
"bossed" by any number of people in their lives. They need to learn how to
be a good subordinate FIRST. The military knows this, which is why even
General officers start out as boot recruits, where they learn to be
"bossed." It has absolutely nothing whatever to do with one's disability
status.
I don't hear you assigning any people with disabilities to boss their
non-disabled peers.
So, obviously, since your little system features
non-disabled people bossing disabled people, the main outcome will be as I
stated: people with disabilities will get used to being bossed by
non-disabled people, and non-disabled people will get used to bossing people
with disabilities.
Don't be silly, that's what mentoring programs are *about.* I never
suggested NOT mentoring non disabled students. In fact I repeatedly told you
that ANY student who was having difficulty in a specific academic area needs
to be mentored.
It so happens that we are specifically discussing the disabled, but that in
no way suggests that they are the only students who need mentors.
But before you come up with some scheme to give the people with disabilties
equal bossing time, why the heck do these kids need to be bossing each other
at all...they already have teachers, principals, parents, and other
authority figures to boss them.
You really seem to have some sort of authority-figure aversion.
Why not just eliminate the need for this
misguided and dangerous scheme by ensuring that students have an appropriate
curriculum?
Mentoring is an appropriate curriculum for a student who is having
difficulty.
My goodness you are such a fool. This is EXACTLY why people with
disabilities are so vulnerable to sexual assault and other forms of abuse.
Fools like you actually want them to learn to be victims, and to teach
non-disabled people to be victimizers. Amazingly stupid.
You certainly are if you think that teaching children to be subordinate to
authority is a bad thing.
Teaching people with disabilities to be a subordinate class of lesser humans
who are to yield control of their own lives to a higher class of
non-disabled people is most definitely and unquestionably a very bad thing
and leads to horrifying rates of sexual assault and other forms of abuse.
Specious, unsubstantiated, hysterical, untrue claptrap and nonsense.
Scott, you had what you no doubt thought to be an interesting idea but it is
totally without merit,
Sez you. It's not my idea, it's an idea held by many education
professionals, none of whom see the bogey-man you're in a panic about.
and would lead to a vulnerable group of people being
further victimized, and the school being nothing but a training ground for
victims and abusers.
Your anti-paranoia medication is wearing off.
--
Regards,
Scott Weiser
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