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The way public schools in my area handle this now is crazy. They have elementary school student with such severe developmental issues that they will never speak or respond to people beyond a 1-y/o's level, yet they are in regular classes with kids their age.
They also have kids with autism-liked problems that cause occasional episodes of outbursts. Instead of taking the kid having the outburst away, they have all the other students leave the classroom until the outburst passes.
Apparently the theory is kids with special needs used to be relegated to the basement, hidden away. Now the pendulum has swung the other way, and we're putting them in mainstream classes, sometimes with one full-time person dedicated to managing them and walking them through a class they cannot follow.
I would suggest a two-pronged approach.
One, develop a first class analysis, based on unimpeachable data, that in quantitative terms demonstrates that socialism is destroying individual freedom, imposing a slowdown in productivity growth, stifles innovation and prevents rewarding the most successful entrepreneurial ideas. In addition, debunk all the excuses that these failures regularly invoke.
Two, start implementing a radical remodeling of education systems, from kindergarten to graduate school, to focus on teaching how to think and eliminate every attempt to teach what to think. Electronics has made enormous parts of human knowledge readily available. It is the skills of using facts and think effectively that need to be taught. Everybody should be free to challenge the teacher's opinion. Finally, make the system adaptive to the skills of the students. You cannot successfully teach in the same class a genius and a quasi retarded individual. Make sure the system allows the late bloomers to switch to a richer track and the failing students to switch to a track where they will succeed.
This is hard? Winning WWII was hard also.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
long enough to see it. That kilt training is essential, especially when you're expected to give a full torso bow, at least for those to your rear.
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