Special Schools for Aspies

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If there could be special schools for Aspies, where the following could be studied would you attend such a school and why yes or why not?

- A very strict routine of classes
- Teachers who are themselves Aspies or have high IQs
- Clearly defined outlines of study and subjects to study
- Classes where one can specialize and further study their special interest or obsession
- Language classes for languages like Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, etc (languages not many want to learn because they are either more difficult or unusual)
- Sports activities like horseriding, swimming, archery, sword fighting and martial arts.
- Games like Chess, Go, Backgammon, video games etc that require strategic thinking
- Theater, and acting classes
- The Arts like music, painting, sculpture, etc

Star

I would have liked that school. Apart from sport, the only sport I like is kicking a ball against a wall for a bit.
Oh and acting. As long as that wasn't compulsory though, then that would be good.

I would go. It'd be so much better than trying to force yourself to learn from the teachers who ask vague questions, give vague answers, give you 5 viewpoints on something but never straight out the one you need to know, etc.

It'd be great to not have to go to P.E. where your grade is solely based on how you compete with all the coordinated people, or the people who really get into it... (standing in front of the ball when it flies at you during dodgeball, just to get out of the game early didn't cut it in my school, lol)

It'd be nice to go somewhere you could expand your obsessions. I'd love to sign up for a class and know exactly what the difference is between 2 classes, or have an idea of exactly what I would be learning rather than looking at a sheet of paper with an impatient guy waiting for me to tell them what classes I wanna take... they all kind of look the same to me for some reason.

LOL, we should add a room for people with stims that involve clicking things (like me) as most people cannot concentrate when there is noise around them. You could go learn one on one with a teacher there-other people would feel better not having to hear through it, and you wouldn't have to feel self-conscious about making so much noise.

Anything would have been better than mainstream schooling for me:

- test me whilst you are teaching me, I ain’t going to study for something I don’t like
- have the teachers actually “interact” with students other than just read out of a book; get them to do stuff with the children/adults during lunch break or whatever
- instead of fifty subjects a day; have a couple at most
- don’t give homework; I’m not going to do it
- don’t force me to do something I don’t want to do; you’ll lose me the moment you do this
- allow me to go and read something I’m interested in if it’s a particularly bad day for me
- work around the students rather than forcing said students to work around the system
- group students into "logical" groups..., "clickers" and "chewers" need to be separated from me

Choices of physical activity mean little to me; I'll do what I like.

what's odd about the group thing for clickers, chewers, etc... when I do it, I don't hear it even, so if someone else does it, it will drive me nuts, lol-it doesn't make sense, but it's a sound that is more like background noise when I do it... if someone else does it, it seems to be right in my ear

I would have loved to have gone to a school like that.

- people like nobodyzdream can have their own classroom and tutor

yay!! ! I'm "extra" weird, lol.

I would like to write something about my school I think only some of us were AS but the most important things to learn were how to live among NT's so you need some even though it makes life hell. Any aspie worth his or her salt can pass exams with minimal study.
Also important is some refuge when the pressure gets too much.
One day I will write an article about it but I need to research and obviously I do not want to say anything that might cause trouble for anyone else who was there.
I may add I was very seldom that happy there.

How many of you here know that the deaf have a university of their own? No? check:

http://www.gallaudet.edu/x236.xml

The classes are taught by deaf teachers, all classes are in sign language, employees on canpus are required to know sign language, volunteers, any one and every one here is using sign language, is connected to deafness, deaf culture, and deaf acceptance and independence.

What if one day an Aspie High School would open?

Why a HS instead of a University? Because in Universities we can do well any way if we have a good and solid basis like a good, well adapted, functional and practical high school system.

That is why I promote together with Aspie Culture also Aspie education. Aspie teachers for Aspie kids. Aspie High Schools that complay with the special educational needs of Aspies not because they are disabled, but because they have higher IQs and learn in a very differnt way. It is time that our communication needs like those of the deaf are listened to and accepted! !!

Star

I'd prefer that the school had strict RULES rather than strict routines, and I also think that ping-pong should be added to the list of sports. But otherwise it's a GREAT idea! Especially the language classes, obsession classes and art classes.

I don't like the idea of that school I went to a mainstream school with a specialised unit didn't really do me any harm I had to adapt to everything I didn't really like the unit I was in I would have rather of mixed with everyone else it would have saved problems in later life