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From: era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Should I try to teach?
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Date: 13 Feb 90 03:47:31 GMT
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In article <10009@bunker.UUCP> ncas@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Clifford A. Stevens, Jr) writes:
>Index Number: 6608
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>OK, I have a q for the net.gurus.  I'm thinking of trying teaching
>(My original career choice was to be a high school physics teacher),
>but one of my docters told me that children were really bothered by
>a handicap.   So it'd be a mistake to try to be a handicapped teacher.
>But I've heard from other sources that kids can be very protective,
>in such cases! So what are your opinions?

Many of the kids in my daughter's class in the local elementary
are very accepting, in spite of the fact she's non-verbal and
doesn't walk, situp, etc.  In fact, she was invited to a birthday
party today, where all 15 of the other little girls present were
ABLEd.

Offhand, I'd say your doctor is the one who is handicapped;
he has a very serious attitudinal handicap, and that would cause
me to vigorously question just how good a doctor he is.
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