My personal experiences with special education are few but I have some. At Morningside I took a few classes to work towards having my special education endorsement. I liked that because I went to Everett Elementary in Sioux City (which is now half of Liberty Elementary - the school I work at) and worked on reading with 2nd grade boys in the Special Education room there.
Now I pass by the special education room at Liberty quite frequently and often times stop in to work with some of the students if I have some down time. I really like going in there because they seem like a family and it is a much smaller group of students. I also like that even though there are separate grade levels working in there at the same time and often on different tasks the teacher has the room set up like their other classrooms where they sit together. I like this because of the continuity of it. I have noticed when working with some of the students that it is very labor intensive. My favorite student that comes to the Special Education room is a girl in second grade and one day it took a lot of hard work to keep her focused enough to write one sentence, which we finally finished after 20 minutes. When we finished she was very proud of herself and I was proud of her too.
As far as my outlook goes on special education I believe that there is a growing need for it in many areas but I have also seen students that were recommended for it that don't need it. So there needs to be more help and funding but I also believe that in some cases it is over done for some students, if any of that makes sense.
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