> My mother was a school teacher in the late 60's through the seventies.
> In the earlier years they had a special ed class for retarded children.
> Then sometime around '68 or '69 a memorandum came down from the states
> department of education that declared that these children were no longer
> to be referred to as retarded as it was considered a derogatory label.
> They were to be referred to in the school system as the academically
> challenged. The programs that they attended were to be called special
> education programs as opposed to classes for the retarded.

I remember at my K-3 school they changed the name of the program from SIMS
to PALS. I'm not sure what they stand for though.

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