april 28th presentations

This last three presentation covered great topics. The presentation on deaf education, although the second, looked at different aspects of deaf culture. It was very interesting to think about how deaf people's brains develop and work differently than hearing people's. That can be used as a very strong argument for needing different education. Disproportionality in special education is kind of related to my topic on ADHD and again, gave a new way to look at special education that I had not thought of. In my middle school and high school we had a very large, diverse student population so I never really noticed that more minorities were in special education. One point that was brought up was that minorities get the wrong help. For example, they may need to learn english better than going into a special education classroom. I think teachers should make sure every student they put in special education truly needs it. The topic of college sports and athletics fairness it definitely a topic that I can relate to. I am a huge sports fan and agree that those students that play football and basketball bring in a lot of money for the university. In my high school it seemed to be the same way, the big sports got more attention and more money. I cheered all through high school an fortunately we were able to get great support from our school but other school's programs were very weak. I can only imagine how much more the revenue differs in college. Funding for collegiate sports should be more fair somehow but I am not to sure how to figure that out.