So what you're telling me is it takes 12 years of training for someone retarded to understand how to broom.
You also think they are undeserving of an education or even babysitting if you want, but the general US population that makes the average SAT score fall to around 1100 or so is deserving of their education.
You see that the parents object. Did the school go and present this to them or did they not know?
-Rudey
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Originally posted by ktsnake
They, like every other American deserve the right to be able to work. These kids are developmentally on many different levels. Yes, it actually does take repetition and training sometimes to teach them to do janatorial jobs. I think most of these kids and most of their parents are glad to see their kids having the opportunity to be productive. I'm sure if the parents object, the kids can be taken out of their work-study programs and sit with the severe/profound kids that can't do much more than drool on themselves.
Switching to being a Doctor/lawyer is not exactly an option here. The message is that the school is doing the best it can to prepare these kids for life after school. There's a janitor at one of the schools I work at who's shall we say of below average intellect. He graduated HS and got a job at his alma mater cleaning. Dude loves his job and is truly as happy as he can be.
And these days when we have to deal with all of these budget cuts in schools, this program sort of kills two birds with one stone.
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