I think a lot of the spikes in the things we're seeing is people are able to identify and add labels to kids/people these days.
If I was in school now I'd probably be an add/hyperactive/whatever labeled kid.
They never had the peanut allergy thing when I was in school, so that's new to me too. Special needs kids had their own classes and sections of the school, but it was more "out of sight out of mind" back then, not that it was the correct thing, but hey, everyone was trying to figure out how to make things work.
A lot of shit these days is overkill, but also, people are having kids later in life which in itself causes problems, and because they're having less children overall, more time/attention is invested into the one kid.
tl;dr Less bubble wrap, have more kids.
"There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it twice."
I had a kid in my grade 10 class die from eating peanuts, and I was gr10 a looooong time ago.
Just because you either didn't experience it first hand (or likely didn't pay much attention) doesn't mean it didn't happen.
no Shit.
was everyone in class freaking out wondering what was going on ?
She was dead in less than 20 mins. Picked up a cookie from a friend in the lunchroom, didn't ask about it's contents, took a bite and pretty much immediately knew she was in trouble, ran to the washroom and croaked.
Ugly stuff. Back in those days, Epi-pens weren't common and she didn't have one. Probably would have saved her life.
back in those days there wasnt all the signage there is now. So far we have one victim. is there anyone else ?
Yetti asked this long ago on GTAM ... the ratio has gone up 1000%. it seems like every class has at least 7-10 kids that have some medical condition/allergy. It wasnt like that when Yetti went to school.
I did a few years of school in Ukraine and don't recall anyone having any allegies or anything at all.
When I moved to Canada and started school in the 90's again there was nothing.
Wasn't until I got to highschool that I had a friend that was alergic to bees. My highschool was fairly large and I believe we only had about three special needs students. I wouldn't say that is really that large of a number.
But maybe it has increased signifcantly in the last few years.
Post by CanadianBiker on Dec 30, 2014 8:07:20 GMT -5
I went to school in the 60s and 70s. We always had "Special Education" classes in the schools. Most of those kids were severely retarded and would never have coped in regular classes. Eventually the school board created an entire school for just those kids, which expanded to include kids with other needs. It had a day care for students' babies. Pretty progressive for the late 70s. My mother taught there for many years. I don't remember any kids with severe alergies but maybe those kids never made it to school age?
I went to school in the 60s and 70s. We always had "Special Education" classes in the schools. Most of those kids were severely retarded and would never have coped in regular classes. Eventually the school board created an entire school for just those kids, which expanded to include kids with other needs. It had a day care for students' babies. Pretty progressive for the late 70s. My mother taught there for many years. I don't remember any kids with severe alergies but maybe those kids never made it to school age?
See.. this is how Yetti remembers it.
and those kids werrent autistic, they were severely retarded.. Nothing politicley correct about it..