Gifted and Special Needs Students and Traditional Schooling
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Students that are far ahead academically, behind socially or very behind in some subjects may benefit from NOT attending traditional school. In the modern era with so much data, shared knowledge and academic information available, are there strong reasons to attend school or is there value in learning from online, small groups and skills-based training, not easily available in traditional schools?
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Is it better for a gifted and special needs student to stay in school and have continual social and emotional challenges or withdraw and have inner peace but the social criticism and lack of traditional academic paper trail? Going to school for some is worse for some who struggle emotionally.
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Students having social challenges in a traditional school setting may gain some value by attending school but there are many students whom fail to fit into the average learner paradigm. At the turn of the century, there were far more trade schools and over the decades, they disappeared. Many secondary schools in the 60's and 70's had "shop" and "home economics." With the later, girls ...
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