Some Children Need to Be Left Behind

A couple years ago I was working as aid for children with high needs. In the morning I sat in a class with a teenage girl with extremely bad sight that required special glasses with what looked like a microscope to see. My job was to answer the teenages questions about the subject matter and otherwise help her with tasks that required a normal sight to do. The assignment she was given was a crossword puzzle. I thought to myself, why would a teacher hand a crossword puzzle to a girl who was a inch away from being blind? 

My next thought was what could the teacher have done differently? Could the teacher have printed out the crossword puzzle on a larger sheet of paper in bigger and bolder text? Sure seems like a simple enough solution. 

This day also turned out to be the seniors last day. As I was walking to the teenager to her next class the hall that was full of children busy socialize the way only teenagers do between classes. Suddenly something wizzed past my head, I turned to see a water ballon explode against a locker. I found out later that day, that seniors were filling water balloons of urine and bleach at each other in celebration of finishing highschool. 

In the second class I was reading an assignment to the teenager, when over the intercom the Principle of the school gave a speach saying that the school recieved a threat, and if the treat was carried out then highschool would be extented for a week. 

This girl is an example of someone who should not be left behind by the education system, but a child who spends twelve years in the education system and still thinks its a good idea to fill a water balloon with urine and toss it with the intention of hitting someone should have been left behind. To say that no child should be left behind is to say that all children are equal. If all children are equal, no child has any value above or below the next. Children that deserve to be helped and wants to be help should be taken care of by the education system, but those that don't fit into another criteria. This criteria needs a solution. 

From the age of when a child starts school to the age a child ends school, a child spends more time in school then at home when the school year is in session. The responsibility to raise and give children what they need to avoid dumb decisions lays on parents and educators. This community failed to raise its children.