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October 1, 2006

'Special education' label covers wide variety of students

Karen Rivedal:

Madison educators said people must be careful not to label all special education students as violent just because the suspect in Friday's shooting of a rural Wisconsin principal was in special education classes

Special education is broadly defined, they noted. It can be any kind of mental or physical disability that affects a student's learning, from mild to severe, including speech and language problems, autism and emotional disturbances.

"Just because a child is a behavioral problem doesn't mean that child is going to commit this kind of incident at all," said Art Rainwater, superintendent of the Madison School District.

"There are thousands of children throughout the U.S. who have behavioral problems who don't resort to violence."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 1, 2006 7:17 AM
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