Is Special Education Fair?

This sounds like a fair statement about the concern for the majority. I wonder how far back we should go to decide what the "majority" is?

http://muse.widener.edu/~egrozyck/EDControversy/Culp.html

As stated earlier, the burden special education is imposing on the educational system is perpetuating a phenomenon of reverse discrimination. Schools are justified in our society on the basis of providing social benefits (Rozycki, 2000). These benefits must be indivisible. That is, justice only exists when it affects everyone and if some benefit at the expense of others, there is an injustice. At that point, the benefit distribution is deemed to be divisible. It has been demonstrated that special education is currently a divisible benefit where those anointed as "special" receive an inordinate amount of benefit at the expense of regular education students. Therein lies reverse discriminatory practice. Who is to blame for this? Rather than asking who is to blame, perhaps we should be asking what is to blame for this. Certainly, the interpretive nature of how laws are implemented play a major role in setting the stage for inequity in our schools. On a larger scale, however, I would like to suggest that a phenomenon of cultural relativism is to blame. Our culture makes moral assumptions about the legal system which are inaccurate and untrue. We have placed an extremely high value on it's function and purpose based solely on the perception that it is morally motivated. It is not. The legal system is based on winning cases and following the law. In that regard, the legal system functions on a deontologic level (Rozycki, 2000). That is, as long as they follow the rules of the system, justice is being served. Why is an extrinsically motivated system like the courts telling schools, an inherently intrinsic system, what to do in terms of educating kids? This should not be happening. Is Special Education Fair? ©2000 Robert W. Culp


"Why is an extrinsically motivated system like the courts telling schools, an inherently intrinsic system, what to do in terms of educating kids?" Hmmmm- lets start reversing court decisions of the past that tell schools what to do.....? Was it Pink vs .. no Blue vs.. no it was Brown vs... those damned courts should not be allowed to tell schools what to do!

Where I have I seen this before?: We need to deny that there's anything "special" about being disabled, so we can stop getting "special treatment" instead of justice -John R. Woodward, M.S.W.http://www.jik.com/ilclang.html#TIME_TO_GET_RID_OF_SPECIAL