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Kylie Jean Konieczny Students

Special ED. Final [DELETED] Original post: Wed 4/25/2018 at 12:30 PM

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Ashlee Breanna Carnahan Students

Re: Special ED. Final Posted: Wed 4/25/2018 at 10:42 PM, in reply to Kylie Jean Konieczny

Mary was most likely annoyed and bored with the classwork that she was receiving as it was extremely low level for her and that is why she disliked school. I think, rather than it being a negative point, it should be a positive point as that is one of the visual cues to alert the teacher of possible "giftedness."

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Jeffrey Li Bindeman Students

Re: Special ED. Final Posted: Thu 4/26/2018 at 10:58 PM, in reply to Kylie Jean Konieczny

I would then offer the dad the possibility to maybe do a dual enrolment so that the girl could still be enriched and yet still be able to live as a normal little girl with her peers.

I agree with you here. The movie didn't at all focus on how Mary did in other subjects, so we the viewers can only assume that she only excelled at math. If this is the case, I feel like the situation at the end of the movie, where she was taking dual-enrollment classes for mathematics exclusively like you described in your assessment was the best course of action, as it did have the best of both worlds, where she was finally intellectually challenged while still getting to participate in normal girl activities.

Edited:Thu 4/26/2018 at 10:58 PM by Jeffrey Li Bindeman

Nicole S Fletcher Students

Re: Special ED. Final Posted: Tue 5/1/2018 at 11:23 PM, in reply to Kylie Jean Konieczny

I agree that offering the transfer would be the best. Doing this from the beginning could have opened a new door for the uncle in that Mary would still be in a level more appropriate for her in mathematics, but still with her peers the rest of the classes. Since we only hear that Mary is mathematically inclined, we can only really assume that she is average in the rest of her class, whereas she is several levels higher in maths, so dual enrollment was really the best option in any case.