Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome
By: Christopher Kliewer
" Success in life requires an ability to form relationships with others who make up the web of community."
- This quote is so important to this article. I think it points out another form of education that people don't focus on as much. The ability to form relationships whether with the teacher, a classmate, or outside school relationships helps develop other major life skills. To be able to have relationships and communicate to others builds an endless road of possibilities.
" A sense of reciprocity or shared value exists in relationships in which individuals, including those with the most severe disabilities, are recognized as thinking, feeling, caring human beings with personalities all their own."
- I feel it's very important to recognize the importance of shared values in relationships. Especially the importance of this with people who have a severe disability. It's important to remember that all people have the ability to think, have feelings, have personalities, and be caring human beings. We should never limit or not give opportunities to people who have a disability. We should recognize their possibilities and help with whatever we can.
" Society itself is hurt when schools act as cultural sorting machines - locations that " justify a competitive ethic that marginalizes certain students or groups of students ... [that] legitimize discrimination and devaluation on the basis of the dominant society's preferences in matters of ability, gender, ethnicity."
- Students should never be discriminated or devalued for their gender, ethnicity, or in their abilities. We as society need to stop labeling or sorting, thinking we're helping but instead encourage students to try their very best.
If society is limiting people with disabilities, how can we ever grow as a society? If people with disabilities want to learn, who are we as society to stop them?
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