Here's a list of posts that have received one or more comments this week:
- Question of the Day: Spanking
- The School Cafeteria: Inclusion Utopia, or Hell Hole?
- Fear of Escalators
- The President Rolls a Gutter Ball on The Tonight Show
- How My Son Spent His Sixteenth Birthday
- Does Mady Gosselin Need Discipline, or a Diagnosis?
- Site of the Day: Caughtya.org
- Is Being Short a Disability?
- Failing Children in Special Education
- Accident on the Little People, Big World Family Farm
- New Novel Centers on Child With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
- Fidgeting Serves a Purpose for Hyper Kids, Study Finds
Top comment-getting post was the one on the president's unfortunate joke, and my personal pick for comment of the week is this one, left by commenter Anna in response to a post on cafeteria hell: "This [touches] on something my own son has struggled with, and was mimimally addressed at meetings. The consensus was that my son did well in highly structured settings, but when left to his own devices (as at lunch), tended to get chaotic and more likely succumbed to 'groupthink.' There should be more attention paid to this very dilemma, as this is definitely one of those environments where children can and often do act out, and are 'set up' for failure. Come to think, this is the environment which has led to most of the disciplinary measures taken against him, and this article has inspired me to bring more attention to this at the next IEP meeting."
What's on your mind today? Speak out in the comments below, or add your opinion to the posts above.
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