Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with special-education
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I find myself writing about education again. Is there anyone still standing who believes public education has not failed as an institution. They put my special ed class down in the boiler room (kids called it the boiler maker) so no one had to see us. We had separate playgrounds.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times keeps trying to cover – the NEW education. How do we change what gets delivered to children has to be delivered to children. Now, let us go to special education. No one wants to talk about special ed as it is juxtaposed with typical children being…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
My classroom was filled with adolescent boys who had failed at everything. Violence on steroids. EduPsychoBabble. We called them Severeley Emotionally Disturbed. The teachers of typical children loved you now. Don’t come into my classroom because meltdowns were every hour of every day. Any stranger in the room was fresh…