Kliewer

Starting as a freshman in High School the special needs children were very secluded and didn’t really interact much with the other kids. I noticed that they weren’t with us in classes like gym, art and culinary arts. I always that it was weird because in my middle school they were very much involved in these types of classes. I brought the subject up to my parents once and they would tell me that when they were in High School the special needs children were always picked on and sometimes even beat up. I couldn’t even imagine the cruelty of something like that. I think that special needs people are such an inspiration and are just different in their own way like every single one of us. As I became a sophomore, junior and senior I noticed that this made a drastic change in my school. I had an art class with this special needs girl named Selena and she was truly a sweetheart. She sat in my group and I always helped her with everything. In my High School the special needs children were friended by everyone and if anyone picked on or made fun of them the person offending them would probably have been made fun of or even beat up. I saw a huge change in the way they interacted with the rest of us towards the end of my High School career and I think it is absolutely amazing and wonderful. Now I am a part of an All- Star cheerleading company and one of our teams is special needs and they always have their own division at competitions and it always melts everyone’s hearts to see them perform. I do believe that this concern of special needs people not being treated right or equally has changed and will continue too.

Does anyone else feel the same way? That this subject has changed a lot and we should be proud and continue to make the difference everywhere. Is anyone concentrating in special education and if so why?

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