Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e77LAeP27668; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:10:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:10:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <A14F5CA469FED211BF2900062B000C160451EC00@wdcfb6exc03.ed.gov> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Behroozi, Jaleh" <Jaleh_Behroozi@nifl.gov> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3063] Question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Status: O Content-Length: 3809 Lines: 66 The following message was sent to me by one of the LINCS users. With his permission, I am posting his message to the list. Please share your thoughts with him and other subscribers on the list. Thanks. Jaleh Behroozi Soroui LINCS Director National Institute for Literacy 1775 I Street, Suite 730 Washington, DC. 20006 Phone 202/233-2039 FAX 202/233-2050 I would like to tell whomever this may concern. As a kid I grew up poor, and in a house of 8 with a single parent. At one point, my mother drank and fought with her boyfriends all the time. In addition, my mother had a 6th grade education. well as a kid, I was placed in a SLD class from 3rd grade to sixth grade. The only way that I was able to prove that I really had know serious learning disability is because my junior high teacher saw that I had talent and placed me in the regular classes. I was even taken geometry in the seventh grade. My mother told me that she didn't want to be bothered with the teachers at school so she never showed interest in my education; nevertheless, she let the faculty dictate what was needed in order to help me. most parents will try to investigate these issues of there kids being placed in a SLD program. Also, I have learned that in the public schools and maybe in other organizations that these programs are receiving special fundings from the ! government to run these programs which reminds me about situation that I went through. One day I told the teacher that I am smart enough to be in regular classes, and the teacher said yes you are, but we are not going to release you because our program has to have enough students enrolled to keep it running. I believe what she was telling me was that she needed job security. Also, some of the kids and students who are in these classes may be losing out on there true education because alot of these programs aren't teacher the students what they need to know, and when they faced with an academic problem, they have no clue as to what means what because they haven't been thought that. I experienced this first hand. Becuase I strongly believed in myself, I finished high school with a regular high school diploma , and went on to college graduating with a degree in computer science. when I was in high school, I had a very bad experince with a faculty member. The guidence counselor ! who was my counselor and football coach was always recommand that I be placed back into the SLD program and to make matters worst. He thought this would be better for me so that I could keep up with my grade point so that I could play football. I think that some people make life very difficult for others and when you have a parent who says that they care but never showing any interest then life can be turned upside down for the kid and individual. Nevertheless, my mother use to call me stupid and would make fun of me and my hand writings. I believe she did these things because she had a problem with herself. She only had a sixth grade education. My conclusion, is that I would like to know if a person who has been through something like this, could you say that this person has a learning disability or could it be that this person was never given a fair chance at the beginning. And last but this also plays a big factor, but what if the kid is a Afro American kid like me, and b! orn in the south during the earily seventys when the majority of the teachers were white and a lot of the black students were though of having a learning disability when they didn't perform well and not realizing that this person maybe dealing with other problems. let me ask you something? If you had a son or daughter would you call them stupid would you not talk to there teacher or show concern about your kid progress. Let me know what do you think.
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