re: So Devos flubs her answer on IDEA, now IDEA website down

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Their efforts, which started in 2004 but have never been publicly announced or explained, have saved the Texas Education Agency billions of dollars but denied vital supports to children with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, epilepsy, mental illnesses, speech impediments, traumatic brain injuries, even blindness and deafness, a Houston Chronicle investigation has found.

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Is this article implying that all handicapped individuals need to receive "special education" aka inferior education?

I have Muscular Dystrophy and when I was in elementary school I remember being pulled out of class, frequently, to have my mental acuity tested. My public school thought that I belongedin a special ed class because I was physically disabled. Nevermind, that I received straight As and would finish my assignments before the teacher finished going over the examples, or explaining the instructions (because I knew how to read). Thankfully, my mother raised holy hell and refused to let them remove me from my regular classes and stick me in with the special ed students. The very idea that just because someone is handicapped that they need "special services" or to be treated with kid gloves is a joke.

I'm all for tailoring teaching styles and education to how a child learns best but lets do that for every student by placing them with teachers who teach in the manner that they learn best from not by arbitrarily deciding that handicapped individuals need "special" education.