Klarinet Archive - Posting 000959.txt from 2004/03

From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@------.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:21:52 -0500

At 08:01 AM 3/17/2004, you wrote:
>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.
>
>David Blumberg

And so we depart on a journey into the Dark Ages again. Separatism never
works. I suppose if you had two kids and one was developmentally delayed,
you wouldn't allow them to live in the same house together because the slow
one would interfere with the development of the "normal" one? People are
people and sorting them into neat little piles only causes hard feelings
and unfulfilled lives. Wake up. You need to spend some time with these
"slow" ones and see just what they 'can' do. Come on up here where I teach
and I will be happy to let you compete with the four 'special' students in
my college classes. One of them is autistic and can't speak, but he might
just be able to run circles around you in my class. These kids are polite,
well- mannered and come ready to learn in EVERY class, which is more than I
can say for some of the other 'normal' students in my classes.

Nancy

Nancy Buckman
Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
eefer@------.net

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