Argument - “Eliminating Ableism in Education” by Thomas Hehir

This author, Thomas Hehir, along with the Examined Life video argues that people with disabilities are constantly forced to overcome the percepition our society and educational system has placed upon them by having to mold and learn how to be more able bodied instead of educators learning ways to teach them properly and alongside abled bodied students. Disabled people usually are treated as just their disability, not as a person. The eduaction for the mentally disabled further exemplifies this by giving them lower expectations and less effort compared to abled students. They are not being properly educated for guaranteed success on daily living because society considers them slow, low intelligence, or not willing to understand them. These thoughts and assumptions people have of them are the main issue of why students with disabilities are at a disadvantage towards succeeding in our society. They should not feel the need to ensure they will be treated equally and that teachers will accomodate for them. All students should be offered the same things like any other ordinary student receiving an education and feel united with each other than divided.

Comments: Teachers need to give disabled students the help they need instead of complying with giving them less consideration and more hurdles to overcome in order to prove they are capable despite their disability. There should not be a need to to prove that a student have a disability by performing a test, but a need for the teachers to accommodate with it while teaching them. Hyperlink