Help! This section is being over-run with non-Special Needs questions.?

Question

The Special Education section is for information/questions regarding students with Special Needs (autism, mental retardation, Attention Deficit Disorder, etc, etc). It is NOT for getting information about Specialized study programs. Please direct your questions about that to the Higher Education section. Please, please, please.

Answer 1

I am a special education teacher and I also have a sister who has Down syndrome and a nephew who is on the autism spectrum.  I agree with you - on any given day, more than 50% of the questions asked in this category have nothing to do with students with special needs.  It's really annoying and frustrating.  To make make matters worse, I have actually tried to redirect people who have posted non-special ed questions here to more appropriate categories, and Yahoo has deleted my answers for abuse!  Here is my answer that was deleted for "not being a question or answer:"

"The Special Education category is intended for questions about students with special needs such as autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, cognitive impairments, sensory impairments, etc. Try posting your question under the Education Category of Studying Abroad, or go to the Business and Finance category, which has a subcategory of Careers and Employment. Under Careers and Employment, there is a heading for Health Care. Maybe someone there will be able to answer your question."

So for trying to be helpful, I got penalized!  It would be great if Yahoo would come up with some categories that are more clearly appropriate for people who have questions about advanced technical training, computer programming, health careers, engineering, etc.

Answer 2

usually, the problem is taht special ed comes up automatically  as the suggested category-

people either don't notice or are too lazy to change teh category-

Yahoo needs to change the way it assigns topics to thsi category-

Answer 3

Maybe they cannot read.

Answer 4

I'm not sure that those people understand the real meaning of Special Education.  I would also like to add something to your list of conditions covered under special Ed.  

Special Education means that a child learns differently than the norm, so it's not just for children with learning disabilites, it could and should include gifted children.  IF more parents of gifted children would fight for their children's educational needs than more of them would also get the the services that they need to learn the way that they needed to.  School districts would either be forced to come up with programs for the gifted as they have for children with LD's or let them go to private schools.  But it won't happen until these parents group together the way that parents of kids with LD's have.