When racial politics trumps special needs (opinion)
When racial politics trumps special needs (opinion)"
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To the Editor: Your article “Minority Overrepresentation in Special Ed. Targeted,” reflects the recent injection of race into a problem that should be dealt with on the issues. Having taught
in inner-city schools for 41 years, I have seen the focus of discussions about special education shift from who really needs special education to racial balance. Today, even if 95 percent
of the students in a school are from minority groups, children are placed in special education not because of need, but because of their ethnic background. In such a case, an emotionally
disturbed minority child not in special education might disrupt a classroom, and in so doing ruin the education of 25 other minority students, all because of racial politics. This discussion
has nothing to do with children’s needs. If it did, the minority child running around the room would be considered in light of the 25 minority children who can’t learn because of one
student’s emotional problems. I witnessed the destruction of the education of hundreds of minority kids because of this notion of racial balance in special education. _Elliot Kotler_
_Ossining, N.Y._
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