buryuntime wrote:
Italianwolf77 wrote:
ebec11 wrote:
Italianwolf77 wrote:
ebec11 wrote:
Italianwolf77 wrote:
I copy off people anyways lol. As for extra time on big tests, I hate that stuff when its given to me. I want to be treated the same as all the other students. Just because I have some problems doesn't mean I should be treated any less.
Listen, it doesn't mean you are less then the other students. It's like denying a blind kid access to braille or a hear impaired student being given an oral test (I've had those before - not fun). It's giving you equal footing with the other kids. I understand that feeling though, I was denied my Spec. Ed. benifits in Grade 7 and 8, and when I got them back in grade 9, I didn't want them. I wanted to be "normal". Guess what? We're both not normal, but it doesn't have to ruin your school career. You should reap the benefits of this.
The thing is, I am on pretty equal with the other students. In fact I'm one of the best writer's in the 8th grade at my school. I learn a slower pace, but so do other kids in my class. I find it all pointless, and believe I deserve to be given what the other kids are given. The only thing I'll accept is the seating at the front of the class, as I have hearing loss (I have very little hearing in my right ear) so as much as I hate the front of the room it helps me hear the teacher better. I'd much rather be in the back though, so I can talk with friends and doodle and goof around. I'll be asking my audiologist (hearing doctor) when I see her next about maybe a hearing aide for my impaired ear. Not sure if I can get only one though.
I'm a good writer too. I was in a writing program for two and a half years that only 25 out of 300 people who auditioned every year got into to. It doesn't mean I have special needs.
I think having unlimited time for tests is a bit demeaning. I have it for 1 1/2 the amount of the other kids, which works for me. It might not work for you.
It's good though that you're getting help, even if it seems you don't need it. It's much better then needing help and not having access to it.
I don't even use the help to begin with. I ignore the extra word banks and stuff they give me on tests, as in scribble it out, I time myself on standardized tests when I get extra time so that I complete it within the time the other students are allowed, and I ignore the aide in my classes. Its quite pointless for the school to give me help that I simply ignore.
Is there anyway you could arrange to not have an aide, etc? If you ignore the aide it'd be nice if someone else who needs an aide could have them present.
Well you see, my class schedule is organized so that the other "special needs" students (most of them have more severe Asperger's or Autism, or other problems) are in my classes, so that way the aides can attend to them as well. The 4 main classes (language arts, history, science, and spanish) are set up as academic cores, labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4. My schedule is that of the other special needs students, though they take a social skills class instead of Spanish. I take Spanish.
09 Jan 2009, 8:06 pm
