BLOG #9

Citizenship in Schools:Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome                                        Rachel Miale

By : Christopher Kliewer

1. "I started to notice that I didn't like the classes I was taking called special education.  I had to go through special ed. Almost all my life.  I wanted to take other classes that interested me.  I had never felt so mad I wanted to cry."

•  I believe that we shouldn't put special needs kids in seperate classes.  they are kids and they want to be around kids there own age. 

1. "Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full, rich life.  The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with developmental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barrier for people with disabilities."

• I believe that we should start teaching kids at a young age the other kids with disabilities are the as everyone else, they just mught act and look different.  But kids should be tought  that its not right to make fun of them jusrt because they have a problem.  We shouod teach kids about each disibilities out there so they know about it and they would understand the child who has it more.

1. "I don't tend to see Down Syndrome ass something.  If you look at those three kids running around the room, they're incredibly different from each other."

•  Even though kids night have disabilities they are still kids and should be treat the same as everyone else.  They are still kids and want to do things like other kids.  These kids are special not because they have a disability but because they can do things others can't.

This reading was very hard for me because my little sister is a special needs child and its very hard to hear or talk about it.