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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome

Reflection

“People without disabilities are judging us.”  I cannot believe that there’s people out there that single out students because of their disabilities.  It made me so upset, because those people don’t even realize how much people with disabilities struggle.  After all, they just want to be seemed as a normal person, fit in, they just seek for love not discrimination, which in most cases that’s what the majority of people does, discriminate them. 
As teacher’s separate students with disabilities from the others it prevent them from learning, because since they don’t interact with others students, they don’t acquire as much knowledge as the other students.  I believe that if instead of separating them from one another it will be more helpful if they stay together in the same classroom because it let those people with disabilities feel that they’re being appreciated for who they are and let them build trust between those around them.
“Each students contribute a unique and potentially valuable dimension to the wed of relationships that formed a school community.” It’s true, all of us have a unique talent to contribute to the community. However people with disabilities don’t get as much chances are the others, people believe that because they have a learning disability they are not going to do the job as good as a person
without disabilities. They might not be intelligent as others but as a I said before, they have their own talent they just need the opportunity to put that talent in practices, but in some of the cases ignorant people don’t seem to take them seriously or capable to do the job.
  While reading the article, I found the word “retard” which made me so upset.  It is so ridiculous the way some people think.  No one should be characterized as retard; people don’t seem to realize that they have feelings just the way we do.  Being discriminated discourages them from going to school, which also prevent them from learning. Our society needs to realize that individuals with disabilities can be as, successful as those without disabilities.
In class, I would like to talk more about this issue, and discuss how we as future teachers can help those kids around the classroom.  I found a very interesting website that talk about lots of different disabilities and how to learn to work with those students. 
http://www.ldanatl.org/aboutld/teachers/index.asp

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