In this article Hehir talks about ableist assumptions having negative impacts on the education of children with disabilities. My brother for example has autism. As a child my mom work extremely hard to make sure he had he services he needed while in school. While he was a kid it was easier for him to have the services he needed in school because he was in a group home where they had on sight schooling and it was an organization. As he got older and was placed back in home and then into another group home he needed to attend a regular high school. The high school let him take vocational classes for culinary until they decided it was too dangerous to have him around the knives and he didn't have the right motor skills to continue the program and asked him to pick another one. He eventually picked computer science but didn't finish because it wasn't the program he originally wanted. His handwriting was terrible and he used to have a keyboard to type everything for class and teachers would make a big fuss about him not writing on paper. My brother ended up not graduating he was depressed and blamed the school and bullying. Instead of my mom forcing him to stay in school she thought it was best for his mental health and safety to drop out. His case is extremely severe in how he dropped out but the school wouldn't work with him to better his education and help him finish.
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