{"id":96063,"date":"2025-07-11T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96063"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:52:26","slug":"reflections-on-special-education-myth-busting-phillips-krivicka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/11\/reflections-on-special-education-myth-busting-phillips-krivicka\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Special Education Myth Busting&#8221; [Phillips-Krivicka]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2023\/05\/09\/special-education-myth-busting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Special Education Myth Busting<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Karla Phillips-Krivicka<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least 85% of students with disabilities can learn and achieve on grade level.<\/li>\n<li>14% of all U.S. students have a disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>No belief is more damaging in education than the misperception that children with disabilities cannot really succeed and shouldn\u2019t be challenged to reach the same high standards as all children.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Arne Duncan,\u00a0former U.S. Secretary of Education\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">One of our kids &#8212; actually, who is no longer a kid anymore &#8212; was born with Mosaic Down Syndrome. Looking back on her K-12 years, first through fifth grade went very well &#8212; which my wife and I were very grateful for. (We didn&#8217;t know what each year would bring and whether she would be able to move on to the next grade.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But sixth and seventh grades were very rough. At the end of seventh grade, we decided to homeschool our daughter. The system she was in &#8212; like so many school systems across the nation &#8212; was meant to address the 80% of students who are neither gifted nor have special needs. The quickly-moving trains leave at such and such a time and then stop at such and such a time. One better keep up. This traditional system is a one-size-fits-all approach, and it&#8217;s something we do for administrative purposes &#8212; it&#8217;s not for the benefit of the kids within K-12 schools.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70511\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains.jpg\" alt=\"K-12 education in America is a like a quickly moving train that stops for no one.\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-768x383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1188px) 100vw, 1188px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">After a few years of both homeschooling and Christian education, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">it turned out that our daughter was able to learn almost all of the subjects in high school. But she needed to learn ON HER TIMELINE&#8230;AT HER OWN PACE of learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>We&#8217;re proud of her. She has had a couple of jobs already and is doing quite well overall. Her motivation has been very low at times, which made homeschooling very tough. But, overall, I would agree with Karla Phillips-Krivicka&#8217;s key point that at least 85% of students with disabilities can learn and achieve at grade level. That&#8217;s been true for our daughter who has some special needs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Education Myth Busting &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Karla Phillips-Krivicka Key Points At least 85% of students with disabilities can learn and achieve on grade level. 14% of all U.S. students have a disability. No belief is more damaging in education than the misperception that children with disabilities cannot really succeed and shouldn\u2019t be challenged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,72,343,347,119,46,7,382,560,279,69,66,89,145,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education","category-education-reform","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-parents-guardians","category-participation","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-traditional-tradition","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96067,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96063\/revisions\/96067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}