what the hell are those? i think anybody who's been IN a classroom knows that such things are not "disorders" they're just differences in aptitudes for various things.
wouldn't it be great if we gave the kid who can't sit in his seat the diagnosis of "kinesthetic aptitude"? i hate the thought of thinking of everyone as disordered. and i certainly DON'T think of MY kids that way.
as for poverty, disenfranchisement, homelife wreck causing oppositional defiant behavior... i don't buy THAT either. 90% of my kids from backgrounds with those issues, and *I* would argue that they are surprisingly well-behaved and respectful in spite of it.
frankly, i think that if most educators knew how to make their students feel truly loved, there would be a lot less oppositional defiant behavior. that's just my 2 cents.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 10:33 pm (UTC)"disorder of written expression"????
what the hell are those? i think anybody who's been IN a classroom knows that such things are not "disorders" they're just differences in aptitudes for various things.
wouldn't it be great if we gave the kid who can't sit in his seat the diagnosis of "kinesthetic aptitude"? i hate the thought of thinking of everyone as disordered. and i certainly DON'T think of MY kids that way.
as for poverty, disenfranchisement, homelife wreck causing oppositional defiant behavior... i don't buy THAT either. 90% of my kids from backgrounds with those issues, and *I* would argue that they are surprisingly well-behaved and respectful in spite of it.
frankly, i think that if most educators knew how to make their students feel truly loved, there would be a lot less oppositional defiant behavior. that's just my 2 cents.