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Are people asking for that? I’ve never heard anybody ask for that. What I have heard people with mental disabilities ask for is accommodations. Don’t put someo

Are people asking for that? I’ve never heard anybody ask for that. What I have heard people with mental disabilities ask for is accommodations. Don’t put someone who gets panic attacks on call. Let people take medications that helps them without stigmatizing it. Don't mock someone with Tourette’s syndrome when they have a vocal tick. Provide plenty of pto to those with chronic migraines. Small boxes like those help more than you might imagine.

antiquark 4y ago
That's why some people want to cancel advanced math classes: https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/parents-panic-as-top-nyc-school-to-end-advanced-math-program/ https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/parents-panic-as-top-nyc-schoo... https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/04/california-math-class-detrack-race-equity/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/04/californ...
inglor_cz 4y ago
"Don't force someone who isn't into maths to take advanced algebra," is perfectly OK with me. "Don't allow mathematically talented kids to take advanced algebra in the name of equity," is an attempt to re-create a classless society in school, and I hate the idea approximately as much as I hated my early years in late stage Czechoslovak Communist regime. Not least because there always is an elite class of ideological mandarins which makes itself exempt from the rules pushed on everyone else. We called it "the Nomenklatura" in the old Soviet Bloc: the list of privileged names. Once you are on it, you belong to modern nobility, the rest are peasants in better clothing. Also, what do you think about overdiagnosis of ADHD and consequent overprescription of Ritalin in the US? Might there be other ulterior motives than just money?