Teaching Students' Problems Could Be Considered "Small Potatoes" When Compared With Struggles Facing Today's Special Education Families

 

Here is an article that I recently read, and I found myself pondering a couple of things.

Students with special needs: The challenges of online learning - CNN

Are we doing enough as future teachers to educate ourselves so that we can contribute when we are in-service teachers?  Can we ever?

This article snapshots the lives of many different people and families and their perspectives on the challenges the pandemic has required them to address.  The mother of two special needs children (ages 12 & 16) is featured first; background information and a description of daily battles that her and her children encounter during the current school year are discussed. Some perspectives this article discusses are the introduction of the concept of the “virtual learning paradox”, we meet a lawyer advocating for families of special needs children discussing her legality doubts about the aspect of virtual learning and educational rights, and Betsy Devos’ stance on virtual learning is touched upon.