Was anyone in a unit like what I was in at school

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When I was in Secondary school (Or High School) whatever you want to call it I was thrown into a Unit which specialised in Autism and AS it was new out and I was the first year group in it they took me out of lessons one by one in my first year they took me out of Science and RE (Religous Education) then in my second year they took me out of Geography and History and in my third year they took me out of French to do specialised lessons which I personally thought was patronising learning to talk to people how to cope ina crowd and they took us out on school outings I wanted to go out of that class and do mainstream lessons when I came to my fourth year they put me into this thing which was worse I still to this day have nightmares about it

Has anyone else had the same problem please tell me

I never had that because I wasn't diagnosed with AS till I left school.
That sounds stupid though. What kind of f*cked up idiots take someone out of history???
At least you got out of RE though. No one needs that BS.

Thank goodness I never had anything like that. To be taken out of my favorite subjects would have been as devastating to me as being told I had to give up my cats. When I was in a specialized class in first grade, I had more of everything academically, not less. It made a world of difference in my life.

Yeah but it was very flawed i suppose it was the naughty unit so even if you have Autism and AS kids and other things they also had naughty kids in there as well some alright some who did not care so all the naughty or weird kids who wanted to do things different like me in the same room as some violent kids it was stupid they probably still do it now.

I wish they'd taken me out of RE.
But if someone had tried to take me out of history I would have shot the son of a b***h in the head.

I was good at RE but i hated it i really liked History had no chance of doing it further though and not really done any history stuff since

I was good at RE actually in years 10 and 11. I got As because I just wrote a load of sh*te. History is awesome though. I'm still doing it now, at university. But my first year has finished so I have no lectures now till September. But in September it'll be awesome. I'll have history every day. Every day will be a history day.

ouch, sorry to hear about that, dont they realize that it can hurt you in long run when those classes (histroy math sciences) are needed to graduate(if school requires it) so removing you from these classes and being taken to "people training 101" will also make you look like you need special help and that can be breeding grounds for teasing and teachers or colleges assuming what you can or cannot do. well least one thing,you got off school grounds once in a while, in mainstream there are no feild trips.

I'm glad that I didn't have to deal with that problem.

The school trips were things like going to The Zoo and with a video camera and we had to interview each other and I had friends in the mainstream area and when I was with them I ended up taking the mickey and saying bad things about people with what I've got and that was under peer pressure in that way they were teasing me to the point I was teasing myself

I was in a school for people with mental retardation For the first two years of high school. The worst part was my IQ is pretty close to gifted. It was just that they didn't know where else to put me. Then after one and a half years there they put me into a vocational high school which was better, but to be honest I still found it to be patronizing going to a "special" school. I now have a distrust for the establishment. That they can justify this type of behavior is just dispicable

That's pretty awful.. you lost a lot of good subjects, well except Religion Education LOL.

Cecilfienkelstien: That's just... stupid. They mainstream some mental ret*ds, so why should they place someone who is more than 2 times higher functioning than the highest functioning mental ret*d in a special school?

Back when I was at 1st grade of secondary school, they had this voluntary social skills class... which was at the same time as my art class. I signed up for the first semester. And really, a lot of people who DIDN'T need it in my opinion had signed up- probably because their main presentation of the class was that we get to act in there and stuff, which had interested me too.

They taught a load of crap, except what I needed most at that time- how to stop people from manipulating me and lying to me. It was a complete waste of money AND time that I could spend improving my art. Besides it was somewhat hard to take the class seriously.

RE is good for perspective and gaining a view on the other 'side' of life. Don't be close-minded!

If RE was done properly then it'd be alright. But it's not. I think they should scrap RE in schools and have some lesson that incorporates all kinds of beliefs/philosophies, not just religion.

I went to a Catholic school and the way they handles it was really good. We looked at controversial issues (abortion, stem cell research etc.) from the perspectives of all the major religions (buddhism, christianity, judaism, hinduism etc.) and from the non-religious. The balance was good and I learnt alot.

Religions as a whole are bad (my view), but you can take away some good teachings here and there.

The only problem I see with RE in some schools (most) is that it doesn't offer alternative views and other sides.

That's true Mitch8817. Sometimes you get all the zealots teaching these subjects and that bad for everyone. Religion is such acontraversial subject that your bound to offend someone. So in my opinion why even go their?