Life

While in one of my classes today we were talking about society and how society incorporates people with disabilities. A classmate made a statement, that well working in the special ed room of a middle school, a boy who she was working with (who has an IQ of an eight year old) was playing with barbies. The teacher in the room noticed and yelled at him and said, "that boys don't play with barbies, go get a toy car." I was shocked to hear that. Gender Norms are more and more common that I guess I should have expected that it is occurring in special ed. I just feel with special ed they may be further behind with what is going on in society, and they don't see things like that or even see anything wrong with it! When really nothing should be wrong with it, its just all part of the gender norming present in society.