Who is or was in special ed?

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I was put in a special education English/Lit class because I had a lot of trouble with writing assignments. Our education system is horrid here and they didn't know what else to do with me. I guess that's what I get for living in hick-town, USA.

The class was way too easy and was geared more towards students who were mildly mentally ********(Edit: it seems the word I used here originally has been censored and turned into the word "excellent". I changed it to asterisks so my sentence would make more sense) ...I could have done all those high school special education assignments in the 2nd or 3rd grade.

I used to be in it, up until 6th grade. It was pointless though, it was obvious I was too good for it. In 6th grade I was forced to take a social skills class, which was also pointless as all the kids who've been in it all 3 years in middle school still haven't improved. But I still have many useless accomadations, and there is a special ed teacher who helps me and the other special needs kids. She treats us like little kids, and me my two other special needs friends tell her off on an almost daily basis, which is pretty funny because what we say to her is often true.

I went to a special middle school for a couple of years, which was pretty awesome. :3 It was sort of an all-inclusive school for anyone who didn't really fit into regular school. We mostly got to slack off and run around crazy all day. I also met a couple best friends that I still hang out with today.
Then when I went back to public school for 9th grade, they were STILL giving us the same math problems I had left behind in 6th grade! D: Guess I didn't miss much, LOL.

PS no short bus for us, but we had a van, with an awesome hippie van driver.

I wasn't in special ed, but when I was in 6th grade I had to go to this thing called "speech" every wednesday morning. I have no idea what the point of it even was. It was just me and a few other weird kids and some older lady. I think we justtalked about random stuff. I don't know... I don't even remember a lot of it.

I was in mostly main stream classes, but I did have special ED Math, and another class. I forget what it's called, but we caught up on homework, and got help there.

(weeps) yes i am and it is making me feel like there is no point of education.. but I should be out of it soon. -_-

I was in special ed starting in 5th grade.
I should have been in sooner but at least I got in where I needed to me.

I was in a special ed 'resource' class - that is what they called them - in 8th and 9th grade. Before that it's a completely different story with way too many loopholes and complexities to explain.

When I moved to North Carolina in eleventh grade, they wanted to place me in remedial-level classes and make me take a learning resource just because they saw the AS diagnosis. If people could just have done the research... or perhaps looked at the grades and my rank at my last school... then I think there would have been less hassle. Eleventh grade became a wasted year then, in my opinion, since the coursework was easy ("Honors" level? Yeah, right... now i wonder what the remedial level was like) and and I took most of my courses with sophomores since their science and history curriculi were shifted by a year.

I deny to myself that any of that ever happened.

Was.

Primary school only.

Never was. Honor student my whole grade school life. However, all of my friends where in special ed.
I like the people in special ed. Mainly I tend to find them smarter than those honor student jerks.
And coming from an honors myself.

i used to be in an autistic unit from when i was aged 4 till when i was about 8 but apart from that i've been in main stream school most of my life

I was put in a special needs class from aged 6 to 8 and was then put back into regular classes (and occasionally missing some lessons to see the SENCO (Special Education Needs Co-ordination Office, think that what it stands for) until I was 15. I do wish partially though that I was kept in it, because I have no one to turn to now when I feel sad or when I need social help (my parents aren't very good when it comes to things like that, but I don't help 'cos I find it too hard to talk to them about personal things).

i was when i was little when i went to high school and moved they threw away my iep and forgot like i never had it

IEP'd from kindergarten to 12th grade. What was odd that I graduated with an Advanced Regents Diploma, and was also at the top 20% of my class rank-wise.

I was in various spec ed settings, resource room kind of thing mostly, back in the late 70s and early 80s. Nobody in there was like me. Most had behavior problems. These kids couldn't understand what I was doing there. I did a lot of their homework; yes, I was the proverbial "fastest kid in the slow group." These thugs protected me, and some were actually my friends; I didn't rob houses with them, but I drank a lot with them starting at age 13. Something kept me away from drugs, thank the Lord. Several of these guys were dead or in prison before age 30. As for school work and life skills, spec.ed did very little for me. I hope things are different now, but I doubt it.

I just got my IEP on Thursday. It was really hard, sitting there and listening to people talk about all your differences. I had to leave after the meeting and cried all the way home.