talking point #9

Citizenship in School: Re-conceptualizing Down Syndrome By: Christopher Kliewer

I really liked this article because it talked about how children with down syndrome shouldn't be separated from the other children, they should be allowed to go to school with the normal children. i can relate to this because in my high school we had a kid  who had down syndrome and he was treated just like everyone else. he went to normal classes and did normal homework. the only thing that was different was that when it was independent work time, he would go to another class and work one on one with a teacher. i feel like this is a very good thing to do because children with disabilities shouldn't be excluded from anything. my best friends twin brother has a disability, and he is also in all the same classes as everyone else, and does all the same things as everyone else.  it shouldn't matter if you have a disability or not, the students should be treated as a person and nothing else.  

"No child was inherently an intellectual burden to a classroom, in fact, she argued each student contributed a unique and potentially valuable dimension to the web of relationships that formed a school community."

i liked this quote because i feel like it really targeted the main point of this article.

every student that walks into the class room should be seen as a student and nothing else. every student is there to learn and they should feel like they are not welcomed in the class room.

the teachers should see the students as individuals and that everyone has special needs that they need

to be filled.

"Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full, rich life. The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with developmental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barriers for people with disabilities"

People with disabilities have a huge challenge in their life. everyone that sees them look at them

with discuss and don't want any thing to do with them. people see them as if they are not human and

are not as smart as anyone else, but really they are just as smart. i feel bad because whenever im with

my best friend and brother people don't even bother to even come up and say hi. it is really sad.

 "How do we erase these negative attitudes?" In light of the fact that "people without disabilities are judging us." 

People without disabilities are definitely judging people with them. when someone that walks by a person with disability something goes through their mind that isn't nice. they think how smart they are, how can live their lives like that and many other things. people shouldn't judge anyone because everyone has something wrong with them, no one is perfect. judging wont get you any where in life.

it shouldn't matter if you have a disability or not. people should be treated all the same. the golden rule is "treat others the way you want to be treat." people should live by this rule because then i feel people wont judge everyone and everyone will be equal. this world is a hard place to live in and it doesn't help when you have people going around  treating others like crap.