The rest are high school drop outs. some have low paying jobs and the others never get a job so they are the kids who commit crimes and go to jail.

Yes I totally agree with this FOR school in the PUBLIC school systems. They don’t have the ability to teach children the way that they need to learn. Schools for children with disabilities try their hardest to get as many of them into their college or a vocational program. My niece just graduated from a school of children with learning disabilities and she’s going to Temple University in Penn, PA. My daughter who is also a special ed student is planning to go to school for psychology because she wants to be come a psychologist and her average last year was 92 for the whole year, That was taking the same classes that every other child in NYS takes unless they are in very advanced classes. When she graduates in 2010 she will have at least 5 regents enabling her to get a regents diploma the highest diploma you can get in NYS.

Most special Ed programs in the U.S. are geared towards “life/job skills.” The school will teach the student how to apply for jobs, how to interview, and how to do basic tasks, such as apartment hunting or cooking.

My boyfriend was in the special ed program because he had cancer and could not attend classes regularly, and when he asked his counselor about college, she flat-out told him that he would be better off looking for a job than wasting time in school.