Klarinet Archive - Posting 000939.txt from 2004/03

From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:03:47 -0500

This is turning into a wonderful justification for homeschooling. We
homeschooled our deaf son because he was too deaf for hearing schools (With
all their glorious mainstreaming) and to hearing for a school fo rthe deaf
(with their physical and cultural adaptations)

I can still remember the first time I heard a loud and unabashed wailing
coming from the bathroom one night. It was my deaf son, singing in the
shower. My wife and I were rolling on the floor, rejoicing in another
stereotype blown away!

Gary

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From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <ormondtoby@------.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] not just the music department

> David Blumberg wrote:
>
> > I was judging Regional Band Auditions
> > several years ago [snip] I don't believe in
> > mainstreaming as it slows down the higher
> > learners. To undereducate the smart as well
> > as overeducate the slow is just wrong!
> > Teach them both at their own levels.
>
> I understand your point, David, and there's some truth to it. However,
> you've just made a "one size fits all" statement --- which is especially
> unproductive in a field as multi-dimensional as music is. I'm not
> learning disabled, but I was excluded from music education for precisely
> this reason.
>
> The *entire child* is developing during school years, not just the
> child's musical skills. One of mainstreaming's stated purposes is to
> fight against the "I don't belong with the rest of the human race"
> feeling. But on the other side of the coin, using a "one size fits
> all" rule to force all handicapped children into mainstream would
> convince many of them that they don't measure up and truly do not belong
> to the rest of the human race.
>
> Education, music or otherwise, is too delicate and too case-specific of
> a situation to handle with a single rule.
>
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