Media Nick Diaz was in Special-Ed classes

[Jibsta69]

So was i lul, we all called it the "retard class" funny thing was, it was a blend of really smart people, complete morons, and drug dealers. Was drug dealers causing problems, goth kids who didn't belong anywhere, and a few awkward kids who struggled to adapt socially but were insanely smart.

Sounds accurate. Most kids I knew in “special ed” classes weren’t exactly dumb. They were just unmotivated and didn’t have any interest in their education, so they had poor grades and got sent to special classes.

Most would drop out of high school mostly due to stigma of being in what you just said, “retard class”. If anything, I always thought these classes where more so a teacher and a parent agreeing to send them there because they failed at as a teacher and parent motivating their student/child and just making them even less interested in schooling due the stigma.

 

[italiamusica]

Sounds accurate. Most kids I knew in “special ed”classes weren’t exactly dumb. They were just unmotivated and didn’t have any interest in their education, so they had poor grades and got sent to special classes. Most would drop out of high school mostly due to stigma of being in what you just said, “retard class”.

This is usually what it is, and what almost happened to me. Coming from a bad home life, I didn't give a shit about school, so I just daydreamed and zoned out most of the time, and my grades got horrible. My parents asked if I wanted to do the "special" classes and I said no, and that was about it lol.

 

[dubhlinn]

i dont understand the picture nick is trying to paint. he was essentially kidnapped by his own team and dragged across the border to a mexican rehab that is basically a prison designed for the worst addicts.
they force you to get clean the hard way and im glad places like that exist.
nicks recent shenanigans were 100% meth. thats all he needed to say and thats all he should've said if anything. he doesnt owe anybody shit. glad hes clean. hope he stays that way.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Back in the day, and maybe still now, a lot of kids get put in special ed or medicated just because they can't sit still for hours. Doesn't necessarily mean you're unintelligent and no shame in it.

The stat I've always found interesting is boys with summer birthdays (the youngest in a grade in most all state in America) are more than twice as likely to get diagnosed with ADHD than their classmates.
Feels like immaturity that often comes with your placement within the 1 year group lumping can result in being diagnosed with a disability that simply delaying your enrollment into kindergarten would remove for many.

 

[Thy]

Sounds accurate. Most kids I knew in “special ed” classes weren’t exactly dumb. They were just unmotivated and didn’t have any interest in their education, so they had poor grades and got sent to special classes.

Most would drop out of high school mostly due to stigma of being in what you just said, “retard class”. If anything, I always thought these classes where more so a teacher and a parent agreeing to send them there because they failed at as a teacher and parent motivating their student/child and just making them even less interested in schooling due the stigma.

Eh, some yea, Some were genuine scumbags and ghetto ass drug dealers, but others were really smart and did well with good grades. Like my one friend that was in it, super capable person, good grades, as a teen he built his own studio in the basement did all the plumbing, sheet rocking, sound proofing, electricity. The kind of person where i just walk in and he's got two 5 gallon buckets with a pump pushing water into another and his computer wired to it cause he said he's learning a programmable logic controller to control the level of the water the way he wants. Yet this kid was in the retard class cause he didn't fit in socially as a huge person. People would bully and call him lenny from of mice n men.

I had a 148 iq in 9th grade, but was always in arguments with teachers and getting in fights with them so they kept flunking me. Even though i'd ace every test and answer questions they asked right everytime. They'd purposely fail me in their classes cause it looked like i wasn't focused or paying attention and they just didn't like me as a person.

The school system is just broken where they reward kids for seeming a certain way and not based on what their actual education and capability is. Like a bunch of braindead jocks that are actual retards. Yet they're getting scholarships for being good at throwing a ball.

Yea, i dropped out when i was 14 and got my ged that same year. Had a pretty messed up time growing up, but eventually i got into physics and chemistry and got a job i loved doing environmental work, running treatment plants and stuff. The people at my company were so impressed with my passion and ability to learn that the company owner paid for all my testing to get new licenses and they almost tripled my payrate from when i started in 5-6 years. I continued to work there for another decade til i became disabled from auto immune problems.

Made enough money to buy a weekend get away property, do some traveling, and enjoy lotsa stuff for awhile. I still technically have a lot of learning disabilities and even have a file on me from when i was a kid that just says "multiply handicapped" on the cover. Is what it is, but yea, it's just a mixing pot of every kid that doesn't belong regardless of their intelligence. But yea for the most part, it was the kids that teachers and parents didn't know how to deal with cause the teachers and parents themselves aren't capable people.

 

[whocares]

Dude was in special ed classes and became a millionaire! Crazy

There's plenty of tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She's a pilot now.

 

[JPOMMA]

Eh, some yea, Some were genuine scumbags and ghetto ass drug dealers, but others were really smart and did well with good grades. Like my one friend that was in it, super capable person, good grades, as a teen he built his own studio in the basement did all the plumbing, sheet rocking, sound proofing, electricity. The kind of person where i just walk in and he's got two 5 gallon buckets with a pump pushing water into another and his computer wired to it cause he said he's learning a programmable logic controller to control the level of the water the way he wants. Yet this kid was in the retard class cause he didn't fit in socially as a huge person. People would bully and call him lenny from of mice n men.

I had a 148 iq in 9th grade, but was always in arguments with teachers and getting in fights with them so they kept flunking me. Even though i'd ace every test and answer questions they asked right everytime. They'd purposely fail me in their classes cause it looked like i wasn't focused or paying attention and they just didn't like me as a person.

The school system is just broken where they reward kids for seeming a certain way and not based on what their actual education and capability is. Like a bunch of braindead jocks that are actual retards. Yet they're getting scholarships for being good at throwing a ball.

Yea, i dropped out when i was 14 and got my ged that same year. Had a pretty messed up time growing up, but eventually i got into physics and chemistry and got a job i loved doing environmental work, running treatment plants and stuff. The people at my company were so impressed with my passion and ability to learn that the company owner paid for all my testing to get new licenses and they almost tripled my payrate from when i started in 5-6 years. I continued to work there for another decade til i became disabled from auto immune problems.

Made enough money to buy a weekend get away property, do some traveling, and enjoy lotsa stuff for awhile. I still technically have a lot of learning disabilities and even have a file on me from when i was a kid that just says "multiply handicapped" on the cover. Is what it is, but yea, it's just a mixing pot of every kid that doesn't belong regardless of their intelligence. But yea for the most part, it was the kids that teachers and parents didn't know how to deal with cause the teachers and parents themselves aren't capable people.

The school system isn’t broken. It does what it’s designed for: encourage and reward comformity. It’s a place to learn what you are told - rather than REALLY learning something (with passion, interest, etc.). A test is a way of checking who is a really good parrot. That’s why later in life, most people suck at their job and mediocre at what they do. They were encouraged by the school system to just follow what they are told, and get rewarded for it, instead of seeking true mastery and excellence in some area or other.

 

[Downward Spiral]

In other news: Water is wet. The sky is blue.

 

[Thy]

The school system isn’t broken. It does what it’s designed for: encourage and reward comformity. It’s a place to learn what you are told - rather than REALLY learning something (with passion, interest, etc.). A test is a way of checking who is a really good parrot. That’s why later in life, most people suck at their job and mediocre at what they do. They were encouraged by the school system to just follow what they are told, and get rewarded for it, instead of seeking true mastery and excellence in some area or other.

 

[DesiredUserName]

I heard that it was a remedial special-ed class.

 

[TITS]

The Diaz brothers homework in highschool:

 

[jeff7b9]

As an educator, I can confirm that schools do use special education to their financial advantage but my experience with it has been by accepting children TOO delayed to function properly, and sticking them with some poor aide or teacher who can't actually help them.

Special education is not a scam. It is necessary, and anything that is necessary can also be abused. Russell Peters has ADHD and being "successful" doesnt mean or justify anything. High schools aren't vocational schools. They're a place to learn and develop your ability to learn, and I've been in classrooms full of kids that simply can't pay attention or properly absorb info in a regular class.

Do you notice kids attentions spans being BROKEN?

I'm not talking regular kids adhd stuff... I mean like "10 second tom" from 50 first dates

I teach piano and drums and these "raised on acreens" kids have got absolutely no attention span at all.

Never saw it before the last maybe 2-5 years.
Seems to be getting more common.

Examples I have are maybe 10 years old or less now so I don't know if it has hit high school yet.

Feeling I get is these kids have got their dopamine sensors completely burned out from the screens and scrolling.
Maybe it could be some sort of severe learning disability but I don't think it is..

 

[balkanbomber85]

Dont you say.... I am shocked! Who could have imagined that...?

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Do you notice kids attentions spans being BROKEN?

I'm not talking regular kids adhd stuff... I mean like "10 second tom" from 50 first dates

I teach piano and drums and these "raised on acreens" kids have got absolutely no attention span at all.

Never saw it before the last maybe 2-5 years.
Seems to be getting more common.

Examples I have are maybe 10 years old or less now so I don't know if it has hit high school yet.

Feeling I get is these kids have got their dopamine sensors completely burned out from the screens and scrolling.
Maybe it could be some sort of severe learning disability but I don't think it is..

I'm no longer working in schools, but I do have a long "maybe get canceled" rant about how a lot of the "have instant access to information, but no attention span or social skills" symptoms typical of disorders particularly ASD are being exacerbated in children with or without disorders just from the advancement and proliferation of technology and social media.

I will say though, if you're teaching percussion, I gotta think you know that you're just getting a WAY worse proportion of it. I had to handle a marching band and like 6 of the 8 on the drumline had IEP's

 

[jeff7b9]

I'm no longer working in schools, but I do have a long "maybe get canceled" rant about how a lot of the "have instant access to information, but no attention span or social skills" symptoms typical of disorders particularly ASD are being exacerbated in children with or without disorders just from the advancement and proliferation of technology and social media.

I'm worried about the generation coming up.

I will say though, if you're teaching percussion, I gotta think you know that you're just getting a WAY worse proportion of it. I had to handle a marching band and like 6 of the 8 on the drumline had IEP's

You smash the thing when I smash the thing...

How hard is that?

Shouldn't be too much to ask.
Didn't used to have issues but these screen kids get lost so quickly

 

[Billthebutcher]

If anyone remembers years ago during the GSP press, Nick didn't even know how to do his own taxes.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

I'm worried about the generation coming up.





You smash the thing when I smash the thing...

How hard is that?

Shouldn't be too much to ask.
Didn't used to have issues but these screen kids get lost so quickly

Same. So much blame to go around for teachers and education for kids who really needed more rules on their 'toys' and babysitting

Even when I was growing up, drummers were always, "When can I smash the thing? I always want to be smashing the thing, stop making me wait, or I'll get overexcited/anxious and smash anyway."

You ever watch the drumeo videos where drummers listen to a drumless track for the first time, where they can listen repeatedly and then make their own final track? I always laughed at the wide spectrum of attention issues drummers have, even pros.

You do sometimes get guys like Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork/Megadeth) who will use their first listen through to follow the track all the way through and make notes in a book as they hear it, but then guys like Stewart Copeland (the Police) and Chad Smith (RHCP) can't even finish the first listen to see how the song goes, they just start smashing away before it's done