How Hard Can The Be? (The F.A.T City Workshop)

"How Hard Can This Be?" Besides the fact that this video a little old and is considered to be politically incorrect-- if we look at its deep meaning of awareness to children who are said to have a "disability" then it is a very profound video. I would highly recommend this video to be shown to ALL future teachers and perhaps this video and ones like it should be shown to present teachers as well as a reminder to them!!
The guy who was doing the experiment I believe was acting like a pretty "normal" teacher. He was getting frustrated at his students who struggle because of a said "disability", staring to raise his voice when the students who were put in the place of having a disability would not answer his question fast enough. He was showing people how many teachers do not take into consideration that children with a "disability" are still trying to process the question while children who are "mainstreamed" have answered the question and ready to move on to the next activity. Then because most children understood and answered the question the teacher simply then blames the child (victim) with a disability and says "the child just isn't motivated." WRONG! Quoted from the video, “Yet it has little to do with motivation and has a lot to do with perception! You can all see it but you can perceive it… you need to be taught! Kids need direct instruction. Even though you understand every word in the passage, does not mean you understand the passage.”  And how do these teachers with no compassion and participants have jobs in this rewarding career?! Does the principal not care about what kind of teachers he has in his school? Does the school board not care... our government?! What are the excuses that they (principal, school board, government) are unaware of this happening? Would it be because the teacher is informed most of the time that there will be someone in their class marking them, so they change their usual routine? (Observed from experience as being a middle/high school student)
Perhaps if our system was more like Finland where teachers have to obtain a Master’s Degree in Education it would weed out the teachers that are in this field for the wrong reasons…
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"No child should be left behind to fall through the cracks"

"If the student isn't learning -- The teacher isn't teaching"