Prompt 6- Christopher Kliewer: Capital Letters

In my classroom there is a little boy named Bobby, and he is mentally slow. (I'm not exactly sure what or if its anything specific, but he just does things a little slower than the rest of the students) But once the testing was over, the Instructional Assistant of my school told me that Bobby had jumped up 4 levels of the system we were going by. So for the past 3 weeks, I have just been helping my teacher do things in the classroom, and help out the students if they need anything. One day, Bobby was behind on his classwork. His teacher had him sit and finish a worksheet that was due two weeks prior. He had been sitting at a table with a couple of his classmates, and he was having a hard time finishing the worksheet. So his teacher had him move so that she could help him out. But while she was helping him a bunch of students had made a mess of another center, so she left. I sat and helped Bobby with his worksheet. As soon as I started talking to him I had realized that he was very smart. He knew exactly what each word was that I was showing him, also he knew what word went with what picture.
This was very much related to what the theorist Christopher Kliewer had said about down syndrome children. He said classrooms should be a human reciprocity, where both the child with challenges and the rest of the students get something out of the environment. There was another time, where most of the students were doing a reading center with Mrs. Jones and Bobby was sitting at the computer. She asked where a capital letter goes and why, and no one in her center knew what the answer was. Bobby took off his headphones, walked across the room and pointed to the beginning of the sentence saying “It goes here. It shows that it begins the sentence.” And then walked back to his computer. Bobby gets the environment of regular students, as the children get the feeling of dealing with “different” types of people. Kliewer also talks about Utilitarian Individualism, which is where the society is made for individuals to satisfy their own needs. Bobby is in this society for he is smart and does not have to be put into these “special” classrooms, where he will over succeed, but he is put in a regular classroom, with regular students, and can still show that he is a spectacular and very smart child.