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Special ed kids, what's it like? (lemmy.ml)

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For people who are in or where in special education, Why where you there? What was it like? How did you do later in life? And did it have any effect as a adult?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Everytime I look in the mirror I just see myself as dumb. I hated it and would frequently ditch school because they wouldn't let me out of the program until I walked out during the state test.

I walked out because they had to read every question and answer and I asked nicely to take it somewhere else because it was distracting. They said no so I said I'm going home.

I hope no one ever has to go through special ed at a school like mine that just made you feel dumb and didn't care.

The worst of it was when I'd sign up for after school programs to hangout with friends and actually do something for once but then I'd be told I can't even if I did all my work. Just because I was in the special Ed program. Those fuckers literally isolated me for no reason.

In general my school just sucked tho. I was able to go to into the trade school during my 11th grade year. I went for IT and the teacher there even said he can guarantee a scholarship for me if I keep up my performance next year. But then I got pulled from the trade school because I didn't have enough gym credits at my highschool. I had a 11:50 2 mile and 5ish minute mile. I always participated in gym to so I don't know why or how I didn't have the credits until I was told I didn't change into the correct color shorts. I was never told about it once during gym class.