The Education Wars: Some Good News for a Change

This is a nice thing for this school for the severely disabled; I wonder why it took so long.

I believe, however, eventually this school will be phased out and the kids in these schools put into regular public schools in "life skills" classes. Upon reflection, perhaps the reason it isn't being done now is because these teachers have to be specially trained to deal with students with severe disabilities. The typical life skills class in Washoe County and in other school districts around the country have cross-category special education students (i.e., students who are moderately cognitively disabled mixed with students who are behind several grade levels in reading and math--"learning disabled"--but who are otherwise "normal" intelligence).

I know that principal over there; he is one of the good principals which are fewer and fewer in that district and in districts all over the United States.