MysticMisty
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My elementary school had integrated the highest functioning special ed kids in with the normal classes (they took supplementary classes in the special ed class every other day I think), but no big stories to really mention. They never told us what was specifically wrong with these kids, but I'm 99% sure it was always da autism. In second grade the kid went into an all out tard rage (what I imagine Chris' infamous Greene County Incident was like). The teacher called for the special ed teachers and when they arrived, the regular teacher quickly herded us out of the classroom for an extra recess (awesome) while his regular teachers held him down and took off his shoes, and then literally dragged him down to the special ed classroom while he apparently kicked and screamed the whole way. When he was out of the hallway the teacher brought us back to class, where she gave us a little "your classmate is a little different and sometimes he breaks down like a very young child" talk before we went back to our regular lesson.
In third grade there was this guy who was quite a bit worse. One time he spent ten minutes shitting all over the class bathroom (possibly on purpose). Another time the "main course" of the school lunch for the day was soup. This guy mixed the rest of the lunch into the soup (even his chocolate milk), and the teacher and lunch aides actually made him eat it! Holy fuck it was gross. But the thing that I really remember him for was one day we were coming in from recess, he ran up behind me and pushed me as hard as he could. I landed face down in the gravel, one of my shoes went flying, and I actually had a tooth knocked out! Thank god it was just a baby tooth, but still, it wasn't even one that was ready to fall out at the time. I have no idea why he did this. I guess someone or something pissed him off and he took it out on the nearest person: me. The bright side was that the teacher wasn't going to let him get away with it and he got his ass sent to the principal's office. I hope he got detention.
Unlike in elementary school, my middle and high school's kept the normal kids and the special ed kids thoroughly segregated (to be honest my middle school might have not had any special ed class at all). In high school, however, the highest functioning kids could take certain classes with everyone else (art, PE, and choir for sure, anything else I'm not aware of it), and sometimes you'd see a group of the worst kids being taken back to special ed from their own private PE.
There's one girl I remember in particular from my sophomore year. She shared PE and choir with me, and was obsessed with Elijah Wood and NSYNC (or however the fuck you spell it). This was well after NSYNC was popular (they might have not even been a group anymore), but she talked about both subjects constantly, when she wasn't making up obvious stories. I didn't like her, but I was too nice to tell her to fuck off. She always wanted to hang out with me in choir, even though she was an alto and I was a soprano and thus didn't even stand near me. She tried to bug the teacher a lot as well, but the teacher almost always ignored her. Unfortunately the teacher had a habit of ignoring me if she was talking to me, which sucked because I'd have a legit question for the teacher.
PE was the worst though. Because this girl was almost one step away from clinging onto my arm, she naturally managed to get her gym locker to be right across from mine. This wouldn't have mattered...if not the fact that she openly stared at me when I changed for PE. You know those famous pictures Chris took of himself to advertise to potential gal-pals, the ones with the blank stare? That's the expression the girl had when she watched me change. I really wanted to change my locker, but I didn't think the teacher in charge of the locker room would allow it, and I didn't want to be known as the bitch who was mean to a special ed student anyways. Because she was almost literally clinging to me, I became her unofficial babysitter during PE for the first semester. Luckily, for the second semester we could sign up for a different PE class, and I signed up for weight training because I figured slow-in-the-minds wouldn't be allowed to take that class. It turned out to be the case and I was finally free from her in PE. But not in the locker rooms. I never saw her again in my junior or senior years, so I don't know if she "graduated" or was transferred to a different school. She never mentioned leaving school soon in my sophomore year, so maybe I was just lucky enough that they never let her leave the special ed classes again or something.
In third grade there was this guy who was quite a bit worse. One time he spent ten minutes shitting all over the class bathroom (possibly on purpose). Another time the "main course" of the school lunch for the day was soup. This guy mixed the rest of the lunch into the soup (even his chocolate milk), and the teacher and lunch aides actually made him eat it! Holy fuck it was gross. But the thing that I really remember him for was one day we were coming in from recess, he ran up behind me and pushed me as hard as he could. I landed face down in the gravel, one of my shoes went flying, and I actually had a tooth knocked out! Thank god it was just a baby tooth, but still, it wasn't even one that was ready to fall out at the time. I have no idea why he did this. I guess someone or something pissed him off and he took it out on the nearest person: me. The bright side was that the teacher wasn't going to let him get away with it and he got his ass sent to the principal's office. I hope he got detention.
Unlike in elementary school, my middle and high school's kept the normal kids and the special ed kids thoroughly segregated (to be honest my middle school might have not had any special ed class at all). In high school, however, the highest functioning kids could take certain classes with everyone else (art, PE, and choir for sure, anything else I'm not aware of it), and sometimes you'd see a group of the worst kids being taken back to special ed from their own private PE.
There's one girl I remember in particular from my sophomore year. She shared PE and choir with me, and was obsessed with Elijah Wood and NSYNC (or however the fuck you spell it). This was well after NSYNC was popular (they might have not even been a group anymore), but she talked about both subjects constantly, when she wasn't making up obvious stories. I didn't like her, but I was too nice to tell her to fuck off. She always wanted to hang out with me in choir, even though she was an alto and I was a soprano and thus didn't even stand near me. She tried to bug the teacher a lot as well, but the teacher almost always ignored her. Unfortunately the teacher had a habit of ignoring me if she was talking to me, which sucked because I'd have a legit question for the teacher.
PE was the worst though. Because this girl was almost one step away from clinging onto my arm, she naturally managed to get her gym locker to be right across from mine. This wouldn't have mattered...if not the fact that she openly stared at me when I changed for PE. You know those famous pictures Chris took of himself to advertise to potential gal-pals, the ones with the blank stare? That's the expression the girl had when she watched me change. I really wanted to change my locker, but I didn't think the teacher in charge of the locker room would allow it, and I didn't want to be known as the bitch who was mean to a special ed student anyways. Because she was almost literally clinging to me, I became her unofficial babysitter during PE for the first semester. Luckily, for the second semester we could sign up for a different PE class, and I signed up for weight training because I figured slow-in-the-minds wouldn't be allowed to take that class. It turned out to be the case and I was finally free from her in PE. But not in the locker rooms. I never saw her again in my junior or senior years, so I don't know if she "graduated" or was transferred to a different school. She never mentioned leaving school soon in my sophomore year, so maybe I was just lucky enough that they never let her leave the special ed classes again or something.