My Teacher Not Impressed By Ron Paul's Education Plan

[cac1963]

I work in public schools and can tell you for a fact that the federal government requires all kinds of nonsense mainly through the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. This law had good intentions for truly disabled kids, but has resulted in chaos in the classroom. Otherwise normal kids are often classified with some sort of medical problem and their bad behavior gets legal protection. This allows certain students to be disruptive in the classroom and then it takes hundreds of incidents before the school thinks they have enough evidence to take action to remove the student. Many times these kids parents will excuse this behavior and then you have a walking nightmare with guaranteed lawsuits against all of his/her teachers. I have seen it many times.

Isn't that what Bush's mental health screening plan will address? Isn't that now or soon being implemented by the ED?

The mental health screening plan is The no-child-left-undrugged Act.

 

[Sean]

I am not familiar with Bush's plan. I am just pointing out the law of unintended consequences. Federal government passes a law and it causes major problems. These students will behave this way whether or not they are on meds. Federal law has removed commonsense from the schools. By the way I have read John Taylor Gatto and he is pretty much right on. Some of the stuff that goes on is unbelievable.