Fairness In Special Education

The topic of Special Education can be a difficult topic to talk about. As educators and parents we think about the topic of fairness every day and make assumptions. This paper will explain and answer four questions about the “F.A.T. City: A Look Back, A Look Ahead— A Conversation about Special Education” Video. The questions this paper will focus on are how Richard D. Lavoie defines and explains fairness in the classroom?, what advice he offers to parents regarding fairness?, what he says about assumptions, and why he discuss them?, and what are three concepts from the video that are especially meaningful to me and how will they impact my professional teaching practice?
How Richard D. Lavoie defines and explains fairness in the classroom In the video Richard says to treat children as you would an adult. He says that fairness means that everyone gets what t each student’s needs not that everyone gets the same. He states that teacher’s should not try to make it up to others students when re working the curriculum for another student. Fairness can be a hard topic for teachers to think about. Teachers are always trying to make fairness a big thing in the classroom from the amount of time each student gets on an assignment to the amount of time spent
He says that parents need to except that fairness doesn’t mean that everyone gets the same. Parents along with teachers need to realize that they can treat each child differently. Fairness is what the student needs not what everyone needs. Parents on today’s society always feel that if one child gets more than the other that they aren’t being fair. Parents struggle with fairness just as much as teachers do it might be in different ways but they still struggle. Children always look at why did one child get something but the other one did not, as parents they need to help their children understand that one child might need something where the other one did