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The NCLB act does have some good ideas, and I do not think all LD children should be seperated from the normal classroom, evidence of this is just like AUpaster's story. I have a cousin whom was placed in special ed, but to meet him on the street you wouldn't think he had a LD. However, I will say from my wife's experience as a teacher that it has many flaws. One of which is when they place a student with major disabilities, that disrupts the classroom with outburst. The said part is I know the childs (Pathetic) mother, whom was on drugs while pregnant and the child paid for it. To make matters worse, she ran off and left the child with her parents ughhhh. Parents like Grad I applaud you. I only wish more Americans were like you.

Gshabo, I can tell you take teaching very serious and I too applaud you. From what I have seen most K-8 teachers teach from the heart, likewise from my experence 75% of 9-12 teachers teach for a check and/or to coach. Not that I bash coaches but a lot of them are less than average teachers in my experence. I agree with you that some evaulation is needed to determine each childs ability versus mandatory placement, however there are some teachers that given the chance would pass on placing the LD children in their classroom if given the chance, so I would say the method of selecton would be very difficult to perform successfully every time, although the teachers would be in the better position to access them. My biggest problem with NCLB is that it focuses on testing instead of education, and I can also testify that tests do not always represent intelligence. My roommate at AU had difficult with tests, studied 3 times as much as myself and took him twice as long to pass, and when talking about the material he knew it, but during the test he would choke. I also had a friend that would ace nearly everything but if I was in the position to hire one of the two, I would chose my old roommate because he had common sense where the other friend was almost...well....you know...... That is why I think GPA is a tool to consider, but does not always represent the persons ability, just like test scores.

In short, saying all LD children should be separated is no worse than mandatory integration. Although producing a 100% correct answer for this problem is almost impossible, I believe good ole common sense would do the most wonders, however that way of thinking has been absent in our government most of my life, and the main reason I despise socialism among other reasons.

I too believe each person has gifts, I have an uncle (by marriage) whom is very musical. In fact his entire family is, but his top mechanical skills is putting on his clothing in the morning (no pun intended). For sake of argument, this is another flaw of the illegal immigration debate, because if not for his janitor job, his family would starve. I personally love music, in particular the guitar. I have been (trying to) play for more years than I want to admit. I can play ok and most think I am really good but I learned by constantly repeating and determination to learn a song or riff. I can relate to people having troubles in an particular subject because my musical talent is near zero, and no matter how hard I tried or the hours I have practiced, I only progress through learned movements. The irony of this statement is I have always been good in math, and I am wondering if there could be a link in musical talent versus little mathematical ability or reverse.

Sorry folks for the soap box, I think I was on the road way to long today......