Klarinet Archive - Posting 000106.txt from 2007/01

From: "thomaswinds" <thomaswinds@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] RE: music students
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:51:47 -0500

Bruce wrote: >>I've taught at a private school for so-called "learning
> disabled" kids (read "lazy," in most cases)<<

Bruce, that was about the most tasteless, insensitive thing I've ever read.
If you don't think your students are worth teaching, then please get away
from them. You are doing them more harm than good. They need a teacher who
wants to find a way to teach them, not to just assume they're "lazy".
Maybe they're not doing because you're Not Reaching Them. LD kids don't
learn the same way as NT kids. (NT = Neurotypical)

I have a 14 yo son with Asperger's. He's got LDs out the ears. We have had
SO MANY teachers over the years who don't "get it" - teachers who have
actually set him BACK years of learning, because they only know how to teach
one way - the way they were taught - instead of going outside the box and
finding other ways to teach them.

Maybe it's not the kids who are the lazy ones.

Oh, and BTW, he's 14 and plays trumpet on a fairly high level.

Lynn

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