Shor and Kilewer

Kilewer explains about how students with special needs can feel left out, because they may be smarter than people take them to be, and should be given the chance to take other classes to improve there education. I agree with Kilewer, because I was held back from doing this very thing. I was in resource classes taking the same thing over and over again. It was repetitive and I lost interest and started to get depressed because I was denied for many years the classes I wanted until my 11th grade year when I changed high schools. Through out my life I was made fun of because students, they would say I am stupid and that I am not worthy of there friendship because I was in resource classes. I was never stupid I was just never given the chance to expand my education and my skills. I did not like being held back from what I knew I could do, and did not like the labeling, because I was a person to not a thing to be labeled. "Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full, rich

life. The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with develop-
mental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barriers for people

with disabilities."
This sort of thing happens a lot and to often. We as a whole need to realize that these students are smart they can do more then you think. Give students the education they deserve, not just what you think they can do or what you think they deserve. It is not right to judge a book by it's cover. The pages of the book could be rich with knowledge waiting for someone to read it. You can learn a lot from any one and everyone, no one should limit one's education just because you assume they are not smart enough to do a class or not. Some of these students go onto college and get degrees and master skills they could not before. They get jobs and help communities and start their own stores and maybe even there own line of clothing, they are smart and capable people, so I feel that labeling these students and limiting them is horrible.   
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What stood out to me in shor's story is that students need to learn about the school system they are in and the government and how this affects there learning in school and why they go to school. I found out it is a good topic to use at the beginning of the school year. I agree with Shor, because students need to know what is going on with there education and how it works. It makes the students more involved in what they are doing and gain a better understanding of why they are there. This is a great idea and should be done more in classrooms. "Knowledge is derived from action .... To know an object is
to act upon it and to transform it. .. , To know is therefore to assimilate
-reality into structures of transformation and these are the structures
that intelligence constructs as a direct extension or our actions"
Students will have an understanding and be more interested in learning if they know why things are the way they are. I was not interested in school because I always questioned why do I have to do this, why do I have to be here. Different questions flooded my head all the time and it was a distraction to my education.  If my questions were talked about maybe I would of been more interested in learning and expressing myself. A learning method can change a lot a future, a students way of learning and thinking. I think that it is very important to pursue this in our school system.
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