Springboard is a torturous way of making kids learn. Springboard was originally designed to prepare you for harder level classes and get you ready for college; But most find it incredibly difficult to become prepared, let alone be interested, when you are in a senior level English where you read out of the same book and everything just repeats itself. Not to mention Springboard Math tries to teach you through irrelevant word problems but then expects you to apply them on a test in a way that you have not been taught. While students are finding it difficult to learn this way, English and Math teachers are struggling to teach it. English teachers say that all the classical literature is gone and there are no grammar or vocabulary lessons whatsoever. With the classical literature gone students have no exposure to a complex learning structure. Most English teachers prefer to teach the original curriculum and be able to teach the way they want, rather than be told what and how they teach. Math teachers also feel the same way. They are forced to teach kids out of the Springboard book, and use the word problems that Springboard provides them. This also does not allow kids any further notes within a lesson, therefore, they have notes to study from for a test. This structure of teaching and learning is going to get very old and become boring for students and teachers that have to use it year after year. It is only going to make students resent the teachers for teaching it, and make the teachers resent the school board for forcing them to teach it. Springboard is merely demonizing both the students and the teachers.
Physical disabilities are often misinterpreted for something they are not. More times than not, a physical disability is mistaken for a mental disability. A physical disability is defined as a physical and/or motor impairment. A physical disorder like cerebral palsy is sometimes confused for a mental disorder because of the way it affects the body's muscle movement and mobility skills. Asking why someone with cerebral palsy can talk is like asking, "Why doesn't the arthritis in your wrists affect your speech?" neither is comparable and neither and has nothing to do with the other. In the United States alone, there are about 74.6 million people who have some sort of physical disability. This makes up the largest minority group in the U.S. Of that 74.6 million, 27 million are woman. When people think of physical disabilities, they do not take into consideration that these disabilities do not in fact affect the brain, but only the muscle movement in the body. It is very important to know the difference between physical and mental disabilities and to be aware that other around you may be suffering from either one, or possibly both.
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