Was anyone here placed in special ed classes...Like me

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I wanted to ask because I was just curious. Also because I am against the board of education, and overall the damage that has been done since the early Bush administration. I was diagnosed with aspergers at age 8. So what happened was in 2nd grade they started to hate dealing with me, so when I hit 3rd grade I was placed in "learning disabilities". I was a problem in my early school life. I bothered everyone and wanted attention. I just wanted to make friends, but it never worked out. I never even poured any energy into my classes. I just went to school and played pokemon. I passed my classes above C average. But I just didn't care. I never liked being treated the way I did all throughout grades 1-11. 

 

In high school it was worse because I got the work done in 10 minutes and slept for the rest. Has anyone gone through what I did. Because special ed kids are not stupid. Many of them are highly intelligent. But they get bullied and don't even want to go to school and make anything out of themselves.

Edited January 27, 2014 by TheMarkz0ne

[Adente 1,000]

Nope, never was put in any special ed classes. Quite the opposite, actually, since I've been in many AP and Honors classes. My school doesn't even have them, since I go to a college prep school that grooms us for Ivy League or comparable Universities.

 

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@@TheMarkz0ne, 

 

You should make a poll for this question.

Edited January 26, 2014 by Windy Runner

[Scootalove 10,689]

In my classes, I'm put into special education classes to help me out because I started out in special education when I was in elementary school so my high school demanded that I was put in the classes.

[Vertigo_95 572]

Sadly yes in fifth grade. And after elementary school, it wasn't special classes anymore, it turned out to be special school. But now since i'm older, I realize how bad I messed up going there. I have ADHD, but I am pretty intelligent although I have a short attention span. In fact some of the kids look up to me for being smart and (a little bit shameful) they wish they could be as smart as me.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,836]

I've never been placed in a special ed class, on the contrary, I have actually made it into several AP classes. 

 

I don't think my school actually has special ed classes, anyway. Most likely due to lacking the budget to pay for it.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Once, I thankfully just had an aid and went to regular classes after that because my Mom raised how when she found how useless the Special Ed teacher was. They tended to mistake the fact I sometimes need extra help to fully grasp something(but I'm fine and pick it up quick once I'm on a roll) as being slow. To clarify that further, it sometimes takes me more effort to grasp a concept, but I start learning and mastering really quick once I have the basics down and start really putting it to practice. 

[Castle Bleck 19,386]

@TheMarkz0ne,

 

I can relate: I also have Asperger's and prefer Pokemon-related things over school/college/etc.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I've never been placed in a special ed class, on the contrary, I have actually made it into several AP classes. 

 

I don't think my school actually has special ed classes, anyway. Most likely due to lacking the budget to pay for it.

I agree. The issue is far worse in New England than any of the other states. I could have pushed for AP I just never cared. High school grades are a poor mark up for intelligence and it's pretty much proven. My high school (Methuen High School) was and most likely still is the worst school in Massachusetts. Most of the teachers were slouches. We also had the worst grade statistics in our region. We only had one student go to Harvard and the AP kids were just nasty people. I only knew a couple of AP kids that actually were intelligent and didn't belittle people.  

 

 

Words of wisdom and the truth

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

Once to help them out, although, it was weird.

 

A special ed girl did hit on me, which I found odd, but I just gave her a quick hug seeing that I was being very nice that day.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,836]

I agree. The issue is far worse in New England than any of the other states. I could have pushed for AP I just never cared. High school grades are a poor mark up for intelligence and it's pretty much proven. My high school (Methuen High School) was and most likely still is the worst school in Massachusetts. Most of the teachers were slouches. We also had the worst grade statistics in our region. We only had one student go to Harvard and the AP kids were just nasty people. I only knew a couple of AP kids that actually were intelligent and didn't belittle people.  

 

 

Words of wisdom and the truth

I agree grades aren't a sign of intelligence. I have done poorly in some classes because I just don't have the work ethic to do well in them, not because I couldn't.

[Hangman 320]

Nope. I spent a lot of time in the office though. I was a trouble maker.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I had terrible biology teachers. I had to teach my self and consult my friend about stuff like that. I believe application and discipline is the only way to mastering any craft.

[long gone 8,929]

I agree. The issue is far worse in New England than any of the other states. I could have pushed for AP I just never cared. High school grades are a poor mark up for intelligence and it's pretty much proven. My high school (Methuen High School) was and most likely still is the worst school in Massachusetts. Most of the teachers were slouches. We also had the worst grade statistics in our region. We only had one student go to Harvard and the AP kids were just nasty people. I only knew a couple of AP kids that actually were intelligent and didn't belittle people.  

 

 

Words of wisdom and the truth

The League School of Greater Boston is worse. Trust me, I went there from 2003 - 2008. I was constantly abused by my teachers and if we brought it up with the school's administration they didn't even care and even yelled at us for it.

 

Special education in America as a whole sucks. I was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome in 1996 (when I was 3) and never had any good teachers until I began college a year and a half ago.

[Sugar Pea 2,682]

No, never. Although, when I was very young, the elementary school suggested I should get tested for it, because I talked very low and kinda slurred. What they didn't know is that I was really shy, not much of a talker, and just had speech problems. Luckily, I passed with ease. I have a faint memory of what they did. They showed me pictures of animals and asked me to make the sound of them, and name what they were. Can't remember the other tests though.

I concur that most AP kids are very stuck up, and a bunch of back stabbers if you ask me....I should know, i'm friends with a stuck up AP, straight A honor roll student. I'm on AB honor roll, and planning on taking an AP next year if it falls into place. 
 

[GrimCW 658]

Yep, but I still can laugh at the people who weren't.

We got a couch, TV, and only had like 10-12 people per class. We constantly got to have FUN during/between classes, and weren't fretting over a ton of droll lectures from our teachers. We constantly had independent study vs 24 people looking at the same damned thing while Ben stein went on in the back ground. Everyone was a different grade to boot, so there were no "set" classes in our home room, and we split up for other classes from time to time.

I also got Half Life and other games running on our class comp, and the staff couldn't figure out how to remove it (hint, if burned properly some games can run from a disc mwahahahaa). So it was kept hush and allowed as long as no one important entered the room

 

 

The only reason my grades were "low" is due to a "lack of class participation".... I'm not even sure how that factors in. So I wasn't exactly the quickest to ask questions, I already knew the answers, so I didn't care to add to group discussion, I ALREADY KNEW THE ANSWER.... And frankly I didn't care if others did or not.

 

Other than that my grades were rather high, and half the time I had to teach the teacher (they REALLY hate that btw...)

I even had some grades marked down because I "got ahead of the class".... WHY IS THIS PUNISHED?! Shouldn't an aspiring mind be encouraged?!

 

bah..

Either way, I got my work done and napped on the couch most of the time, or went off and read some other book and even more than once organized protests against the school via students and won .

They didn't dare let the parents know the students were standing up for some reason...

Edited January 27, 2014 by GrimCW

[Cimarronboy 248]

Story of my life, from first til I graduated, cuz of my anger problem.

[ReverseFaller 2,484]

Nope. When I was younger they tried to convince my parents to put me in special ed. classes though, mainly because I didn't talk all that much so they thought something was wrong with me.  Also, apparently not being able to pronounce my r's correctly at the age of 5 made them think something was up with me too.

 

I'm glad I didn't get placed in special education. The special ed. teacher in my elementary school was a freaking she-devil. I only spent about 1 hour in her room  and that was because I was working on a project with a friend of mine who went to her room regularly. Man, another friend of mine who went to her room daily told me stories of how she bad she was but I never really grasped just how bad she was until I met her. She gave off a very mean, impatient vibe. Also, we were freaking whispering and she claimed we were being too noisy so we had to write a 1 page paper apology on being too loud. What?

 

Anyways, that woman seriously rubbed me the wrong way. If I would've been placed in Special ed. I would've been in her room once I reached elementary school. Good thing I wasn't.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Mikami

[Shanks 10,816]

I was diagnosed with low functioning Autism at age 2 (the doctor was right about me having Autism but was wrong about what form I had). When I first went to school I did start out in special ed while being gradually mainstreamed into regular ed with certain supports. In middle school and high school though I was placed in several honors and AP classes most of which I passed relatively easily. Academically speaking I did very well in school but socially it was a seemingly never ending struggle, each time had its unique challenges. In elementary school it seemed like everyone wanted to be my friend but I was extremely naive and wasn't very good at interpreting social cues. In middle school it seemed like half of the students turned into assholes, and I had to deal with that confusing and awkward mess called puberty. In high school the problems from middle school got worse and I was always on the verge of either threatening to or actually beating the hell out of some fool. It wasn't easy but I got through it, although now I am a much stronger person some of the challenges I am going through make my previous ones seem like nothing when you screw up as an adult there is just no mercy or understanding.

[GuerrierCosmique 146]

From 2009 to 2012 I was in a special education class after being thrown out at my former school due to Asperger syndrome, a psychic disorder that shows weird behavior, insane thoughts, obsessive interests and loss of reality. Since finishing school mid-2012 I was workless for more than a year, I had to wait one year for my last job before loosing that after less than a month because short before I developed psychotic states, then got into fight with someone, receiced death threats, wasn't fired but said "buck it". Now I am near poverty and may have to go into a psychatric hospital due to pure insanity, for example I have spend ~1,5 h standing before a mirror having intense aggressive thoughts without any reason and started to repeat the same three cryptic sentences from the old TV show "Babylon 5" over and over again in public on one day, besides I seldom receive "extraterrestrial" visions.

 

Edit: And just now I have cut a wound into one of my left fingers due to space alien telepathic messages.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Sky Marshal Antanica

[GrimCW 658]

 

 

a psychic disorder that shows weird behavior, insane thoughts, obsessive interests and loss of reality.

 

 

... Thats not Aspergers... insane thoughts? Loss of reality?

 

obsessive interests perhaps, but the rest.... no.. just not...

[GuerrierCosmique 146]

The most obvious sign is my really strange behavior that got me into big trouble very often, but I don't want to talk about it here. It also causes odd ways of thinking because the brain is wired differently, in my case this results in hour-long aggressive, sexual or extraterrestrial thoughts and people with this disorder tend to life in fantasy worlds, all of which I have combined into an obsession about science fiction... you know, those novels and games about space, starships, laser guns and aliens.^^

 

But there are several forms of it, others have more communicational deficits, for example they cannot talk properly or understand sarcasm and body language or structure their life around useless routines and rituals.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Sky Marshal Antanica

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I was diagnosed with low functioning Autism at age 2 (the doctor was right about me having Autism but was wrong about what form I had). When I first went to school I did start out in special ed while being gradually mainstreamed into regular ed with certain supports. In middle school and high school though I was placed in several honors and AP classes most of which I passed relatively easily. Academically speaking I did very well in school but socially it was a seemingly never ending struggle, each time had its unique challenges. In elementary school it seemed like everyone wanted to be my friend but I was extremely naive and wasn't very good at interpreting social cues. In middle school it seemed like half of the students turned into assholes, and I had to deal with that confusing and awkward mess called puberty. In high school the problems from middle school got worse and I was always on the verge of either threatening to or actually beating the hell out of some fool. It wasn't easy but I got through it, although now I am a much stronger person some of the challenges I am going through make my previous ones seem like nothing when you screw up as an adult there is just no mercy or understanding.

I am half like you. It's just that I settled for Bs and some A's here and there towards the second half of high school. People discouraged me. The environment was just to bad to be in, to the point where I didn't care about an education. All the AP kids made fun of me and talked down to me like I was slow or something. I am very odd, I get lost in a fantasy world just to keep my self esteem up. We were forced to take 2 years of foreign language here in Massachusetts. It made me very angry, because I struggled with Algebra II and couldn't focus on my science test. I had no ability of multi tasking my classes. The only good science teacher I had was my anatomy and physiology teacher. Micro-biology was fine. Macro-biology was a nightmare.

[GrimCW 658]

@, 

perhaps, but Aspergers doesn't generally include violent tendencies, fantasy worlds, or psychotic break downs.

 

New, and old definitions both do not include these TMK. I'm reading a couple things on it as I type this..

 

In fact..

 

 

 

The hypothesis that individuals with AS are predisposed to violent or criminal behavior has been investigated, but is not supported by data

Edited January 27, 2014 by GrimCW

[GhostPony750 959]

I'm actually in plenty of honor classes, and I fail math and science miserably.

 

But anyway, I have a good question for all of you here: what is intelligence? And does it really exist?

[Castle Bleck 19,386]

I am half like you. It's just that I settled for Bs and some A's here and there towards the second half of high school. People discouraged me. The environment was just to bad to be in, to the point where I didn't care about an education. All the AP kids made fun of me and talked down to me like I was slow or something. I am very odd, I get lost in a fantasy world just to keep my self esteem up. We were forced to take 2 years of foreign language here in Massachusetts. It made me very angry, because I struggled with Algebra II and couldn't focus on my science test. I had no ability of multi tasking my classes. The only good science teacher I had was my anatomy and physiology teacher. Micro-biology was fine. Macro-biology was a nightmare.

 

I'm similar: I only have a month or two of college left, and I just don't bucking care about A's anymore.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Anti-Villain