Ridgefield school board member sorry for referring to certain students as 'bottom of the bucket'

Guess which students.

By Kim Rossi

This post reminds me of my HuffPo days, when I could pop online and vent my spleen against some dingbat who showed callous disregard and disrespect to my three daughters and everyone with autism. Feels kind of good. It will NOT feel good to Ridgefield school board member Sean McEvoy whose appalling description (bottom of the bucket) of special education students in tony Ridgefield, Connecticut (2 towns away from my home) exposed the dirty truth of special education. From the top, our children are tolerated at best, and as budgets stretch tighter than a toddler t-shirt on Dolly Parton, anger will bubble to the surface. 

Mr. Sean McEvoy proclaims himself on LinkedIn as "The Alton Brown of Networking, with the ability to simply explain complex networking concepts." You sir, are NO Alton Brown. I have met Alton Brown and cooked with him in a class.  Your recipe would be thrown right in the trash.  Allow me to explain a simple concept to you, it's called RESPECT.  Spend a day in any of the special education classrooms in Ridgefield. Drop in on a family at dinnertime.  Try managing a classroom as well as any of your teachers, paras and specialists, most of whom work like dogs to explain complex education concepts to their students.

By the way Mr. Networking expert, according to LinkedIn you attended The University of Bridgeport, just a few miles from my home in Trumbull. Are they still owned by the Moonies? I see their acceptance rate is 73% and they are considered "moderately selective." In other words, they take students in the lower part of the barrel. What a coincidence.

How about asking WHY are there so many students needing special education? Spend a few minutes reading Anne Dachel's Loss of Braintrust website. We have a global education catastrophe growing every day. McEvoy has a point, although he made it in the worst possible way. He blamed THE CHILDREN instead of......

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Ridgefield school board member sorry for referring to certain students as 'bottom of the bucket'

RIDGEFIELD — A school board member publicly apologized this week for referring to children who are behind their peers as the "bottom of the bucket."

Parents and other Board of Education members condemned Sean McEvoy's comments, which came during a Sept. 11 meeting where the board and school officials discussed exploring opportunities for gifted and talented children.

The backlash to McEvoy's comments was swift, sparking more than a dozen emails to the school board and numerous angry comments on social media from community members who said the remarks were insulting to special education students.

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