Learning Disablilites and Delinquency from our Juveniles

Our society has an expectation of a child’s progression through life. That is, they listen to their parents, go to school, study hard, go to college or a trade school, and work hard until retirement. What happens with the children that are struggling in school? Well, some of them go to prison. In our nation, public school is the primary source of education; society has taken on the responsibility of educating the youth of this nation. Therefore, we only have ourselves to blame when an undereducated or uneducated youth is arrested and is incarcerated. I argue that our failure to properly address the special needs of our diverse learning disabled children leads to poor school performance, and in a high number of cases juvenile delinquency. Unfortunately, the learning disability rate among delinquent youth is between 30% and 50%, this is in contrast to the number of special education students represented in public school, which is 10% nationally. The stark difference in the perce ntage of delinquency and learning disabled when compared to the national average of learning disabled has had significant attention from lawmakers, criminologist, educators, and the public. This is not a recent problem. The beginning of special education, happened in the 1800s, as immigrants flooded this county. With them came cultural norms, which were perceived as amoral in the United States. Since most immigrants populated â€Å"urban slums,† school districts created â€Å"manual training classes† to teach