Educators with PRIDE Unite

Martina · 12-14-2012, 02:35 AM

I just worry about the students. I know it's worse lately. I am not worrying about their safety though, but about what is going to happen to them when they graduate, their futures. I don't feel like I have enough time to make enough of a difference. They are going to be heading out into the world so ill-equipped. We so fail SDC students. They do not get the support and protection that ID (mentally retarded) students get, and most can't make good use of the opportunities available to RSP and Gen Ed students. They seem destined, so many of them, for poverty, exploitation, and incarceration. I enjoy working with these students. But given how globally they have been failed before they get to us at the end of their high school years, can we do them enough good to make a significant difference?

My students aren't, most of them, dropping out. But does it make a difference if they can't do an online job application?

12-14-2012, 02:35 AM	#26
Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,278 Times in 4,165 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I just worry about the students. I know it's worse lately. I am not worrying about their safety though, but about what is going to happen to them when they graduate, their futures. I don't feel like I have enough time to make enough of a difference. They are going to be heading out into the world so ill-equipped. We so fail SDC students. They do not get the support and protection that ID (mentally retarded) students get, and most can't make good use of the opportunities available to RSP and Gen Ed students. They seem destined, so many of them, for poverty, exploitation, and incarceration. I enjoy working with these students. But given how globally they have been failed before they get to us at the end of their high school years, can we do them enough good to make a significant difference? My students aren't, most of them, dropping out. But does it make a difference if they can't do an online job application?