Special Ed class... I remember that in high school.  No, I didn't attend, just
tried visiting the room a couple times and it was like I was an outcast.  Think
I knew someone, or two, that was going there.  Those people were not going to
have me around being sociable with them before class started.  I kind of felt I
was being given the cold shoulder there (heh, they were telling me to leave), an
experience in personality conflict it was.  Or maybe it was just that I had my
own class to go to and at the time I was the typical interloper of the
adolescent bracket.
This isn't going OT is it? <big grin>

Bob

"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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|
| "mr.art" wrote:
| >
| > Politics change, and so do PC phrases. Just be polite
| > and hope for the best.
|
| 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.
|
| You can change the label on the package but the contents are the same
| so you are right be polite.
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