
A few weeks ago I blogged about a book titled “Why Boys Fail.” It’s an interesting read. I have a kindergarten-aged son and I’ve seen some of the same things happening in his classroom that Richard Whitmire writes about.
In the introduction he writes about a small school in New Mexico where half the boys were labeled as “special education.” I find that disturbing and Whitmire does also.
“When I looked at these boys they didn’t seem like special education students.” ~Paul Ortiz, teacher
My son’s kindergarten had 16 boys in his class and the teacher labeled eight of them as trouble-makers. (TJ was included in that group.) That mis-characterization became a real problem for our family and we eventually made the hard decision to pull him out and home school for the rest of the year.


