{"id":6389,"date":"2021-06-10T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"fixing-problems-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6389","title":{"rendered":"FIXING PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spent the day in Indianapolis at a teacher training session about how to include students with learning disabilities more fully in the general education classes of schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we spent a lot of time talking about how each class of the school day should be designed in such a way to meet ALL the needs of EVERY student. (And it was good and useful stuff, don&#8217;t get me wrong.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along about mid-afternoon, in a brief aside, the presenter bemoaned the fact that we expect students to sit through 7 or 8 different subjects every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think she called it &#8220;crazy&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I happen to agree.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if the system is crazy, why should we expend effort to integrate the students with learning disabilities into that very system?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s like fixing the door on a shed that is on the verge of utter collapse &#8211; roof, windows, walls and floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day in Indianapolis at a teacher training session about how to include students with learning disabilities more fully in the general education classes of schools.\u00a0 So we spent a lot of time talking about how each class of the school day should be designed in such a way to meet ALL the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6390,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}