Cycle One Post
First, I would like to talk about Donovan and empathy and then branch onto the crux of this cycle, the consolidation of curriculum with personal and professional views on education and what exactly education is in modern sensibilities. As a high school student in the 1990’s, I was educated in the Lansing School District and went to Everett High School, then the only school in the District that had a program for the severely learning disabled. Students who were physically and severely learning disabled went to the Beekman Center, however. But Everett was special. These students would one day be able to maybe live independently. So these students, while they didn’t learn the basic math and science classes, they did learn consumer math and home economics. Further, the classrooms were outfitted like small apartments and in them, the students learned independent living skills. How to wash dishes, go to work, how to be...