Klarinet Archive - Posting 001058.txt from 2004/03

From: "Thomas" <thomas@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: re: no one left behind
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:20:25 -0500

Dave: There were a couple of posters who must have misunderstood my posting
about mainstreaming.<<

No, Dave, you understand the purpose of "mainstreaming." Inclusion is the
name of it. For good reason.

>>But don't put a kid with a 90 IQ in a learning situation with someone with
140 as it just won't work out.<<

Somehow, it works for my son. His IQ is not 90. However, 90 Is the low
side of the average IQ range. Here's a list of famous people who were
believed to have Asperger's syndrome or another form of autism.....they
would not have been allowed to be included in class, were it up to you,
Dave....

Jane Austen
Bela Bartok
Ludwig vanBeethoven
Alexander Graham Bell
Anton Bruckner
Henry Cavendish
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Kaspar Hauser
Oliver Heaviside
Thomas Jefferson
Carl Jung
Franz Kafka
Gustav Mahler
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Isaac Newton
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertrand Russell
George Bernard Shaw
Richard Strauss
Nikola Tesla
Henry Thoreau
Mark Twain
Vincent Van Gogh

There are more........

Isaac Asimov
John Denver
Glenn Gould
Jim Henson
Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hughes
Andy Kaufman
Charles Schulz
Andy Warhol

Anyway.....notice that these people are all creative/mathematical/musical.
They say Bill Gates also has Aspie traits. These are people with "quirks"
or annoying traits. People who had problems communicating with the rest of
the world. Social skills was not their forte. What if they were all
shoved in the dumping ground with the other people who weren't like all the
rest?

>>In a band situation - let em all play together as that's what 2nd and 3rd
parts are for. And of course IQ isn't musical talent.

2nd and 3rd parts are for the so-called "normal" kids in our band. Not for
my kid. ;) Blows that theory, LOL. Do you want to be the one who tells
little Ludwig or Gustav they gotta sit in the back?

BTW Didn't Abraham Lincoln go to school in a 1 room school house? What did
they do back then? I am sure the geniuses of their day didn't suffer.

Lynn

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