I went through the school system in IL and moved to a red state. I'm grateful for going through the school system in IL and I'm proud of it, but not anymore after what I've seen recently.
I visited IL a while ago and noticed that the kids are getting worse as far as education goes, especially at my high school, which is a really sad sight to see. I truly hope that will either change or revert back to what they were doing pre-Common Core or whatever it is that they've switched over to, once the DoE is abolished.
On the other hand, I also hope that the school system will improve for red states as well, as I'm noticing the same thing here in Ohio. Besides teaching Common Core and allowing failing students to pass and graduate, which is a recent thing as Common Core is fairly new, there's more to the issues that is not a recent thing.
This goes back a long way because my wife went through the school system here in Ohio they did not treat her properly. They treated her like an invalid just because she's deaf. They didn't give her a proper education cuz they felt she wasn't worth their time teaching. I had to teach her a lot of things and based on what I've noticed, she's really smart but she wasn't given the tools to learn at an early age.
This is why I took my child out of school and we're homeschooling my kid right now because even with Common core and LBQTIABCWTFWHATEVER++//.edu in schools right now, I still don't trust the school system here in this town, to teach my child properly, after how they treated my wife and her peers (who are also deaf with some additional disabilities, like Cerebral Palsy). If they don't treat all students equally, why should I place my trust in teachers who will judge their students differently?
My wife's friend was wheelchair bound, but was in the process of conditioning and strengthening his legs to walk and stand due to mild Cerebral Palsy and Hypotonia (low muscle tone).
He had a teacher aide helping him achieve these stuff, but it was the opposite. She berated him, shamed him and kicked him. When he made a bowel movement accident in his underwear (from fear of her verbal and physical abuse? or just a simple incontinence issue? Who knows cuz he won't tell my wife), some of it slid out of his pants to the floor, the teacher aide pushed him down to the floor and made him clean up the mess.
This is one of the many mean stuff the teacher aide did to my wife's friend and worst of all, the teachers knew and allowed this to happen, including the principal. Another sad thing about this is my wife's friend was conditioned to believe that what they did to him is "normal".
I am aware that this may be isolated to this town that's doing the dirty deeds, but I went to college in New York that had a deaf program. There were over thousands of deaf students attending from other states and a lot of them shared their stories of mistreatment and abuse from their school, similar to what happened to my wife's friend. It's a miracle that they survived it through and got out alive.
I also could go on with how badly deaf people were treated back in the 1950's-1970's like teacher slapping a deaf student's hand with a wooden ruler for using American Sign Language, when they should just be using their lips alone to communicate, but I feel I've made my point already.
Yes, the school system is desperately in need of a reform, not just education but their treatment toward all students, otherwise I will continue to not trust the schools to teach my kid or anyone's kids.
I went through the school system in IL and moved to a red state. I'm grateful for going through the school system in IL and I'm proud of it, but not anymore after what I've seen recently.
I visited IL a while ago and noticed that the kids are getting worse as far as education goes, especially at my high school, which is a really sad sight to see. I truly hope that will either change or revert back to what they were doing pre-Common Core or whatever it is that they've switched over to, once the DoE is abolished.
On the other hand, I also hope that the school system will improve for red states as well, as I'm noticing the same thing here in Ohio. Besides teaching Common Core and allowing failing students to pass and graduate, which is a recent thing as Common Core is fairly new, there's more to the issues that is not a recent thing.
This goes back a long way because my wife went through the school system here in Ohio they did not treat her properly. They treated her like an invalid just because she's deaf. They didn't give her a proper education cuz they felt she wasn't worth their time teaching. I had to teach her a lot of things and based on what I've noticed, she's really smart but she wasn't given the tools to learn at an early age.
This is why I took my child out of school and we're homeschooling my kid right now because even with Common core and LBQTIABCWTFWHATEVER++//.edu in schools right now, I still don't trust the school system here in this town, to teach my child properly, after how they treated my wife and her peers (who are also deaf with some additional disabilities, like Cerebral Palsy). If they don't treat all students equally, why should I place my trust in teachers who will judge their students differently?
My wife's friend was wheelchair bound, but was in the process of conditioning and strengthening his legs to walk and stand due to mild Cerebral Palsy and Hypotonia (low muscle tone).
He had a teacher aide helping him achieve these stuff, but it was the opposite. She berated him, shamed him and kicked him. When he made a bowel movement accident in his underwear (from fear of her verbal and physical abuse? or just a simple incontinence issue? Who knows cuz he won't tell my wife), some of it slid out of his pants to the floor, the teacher aide pushed him down to the floor and made him clean up the mess.
This is one of the many mean stuff the teacher aide did to my wife's friend and worst of all, the teachers knew and allowed this to happen, including the principal. Another sad thing about this is my wife's friend was conditioned to believe that what they did to him is "normal".
I am aware that this may be isolated to this town that's doing the dirty deeds, but I went to college in New York that had a deaf program. There were over thousands of deaf students attending from other states and a lot of them shared their stories of mistreatment and abuse from their school, similar to what happened to my wife's friend. It's a miracle that they survived it through and got out alive.
I also could go on with how badly deaf people were treated back in the 1950's-1970's like teacher slapping a deaf student's hand with a wooden ruler for using American Sign Language, when they should just be using their lips alone to communicate, but I feel I've made my point already.
Yes, the school system is desperately in need of a reform, not just education but their treatment toward all students, otherwise I will continue to not trust the schools to teach my kid or anyone's kids.