One of my past teachers actually said this to our class in reference to students in need of special education, however, the amount of care and education that these students are receiving is not enough! Not NEARLY enough! We give these students all the materials and interventions that we can however, well, like my teacher said, "It's like trying to rake leaves without a rake." They may have all this at this disposal, but they can't pick it up and use it all.
Sometimes we need to build the rake to collect the leaves. First we need a grip, like a grip on reality. It's not like many of us do, thank you public schools for enabling that idea in our heads. We can't get very far with just a grip, we still need to go from the grip in our hand to the knowledge, er, the leaves, on the ground.
Then we need the staff. That's the big long part that connects the grip to the spindles at the end. You can pick up a few things but not much. You can stab the leaves enough to pick up a few but you still have the ENTIRE lawn to do! At least we kind of made it to the ground, we still need to bend over a little but at least we're there!
Oh Heck no, we are NOT done! If we want to have a lawn like the Jones across the street we need to finish our rake soon! We need the spokes to pick up the maximum amount of leaves! According to the nearest hardware stores, the more spokes you have on your rakes and the more of an area on Earth that your now completed rake can take up, the more leaves you can officially retain.
So in a way, my teacher was right. Without the proper approach to education, we can't teach our special education students. And if we can't teach or reach our special education students, then we, as a whole, are not very good educators.
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