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There was an amazing article after the parkland shooting from a high achieving young woman, describing how the school assigned her to tutor the shooter when they were in middle school. This is a technique frequently used, where well behaved, high achieving girls are paired as "buddies" to children with educational, or behavioral struggles. She described being insulted, and having to listen to his rants. Trying to encourage him to learn the material that he did not want to learn. She described being told to be inclusive and kind, and example to this child. Yet, he later literally killed her friends. On the other side, Children with real IEP needs, are being "taught" their IEP goals by peers, Ditching the job from the school personnel to peers, this isn't right for the kid on the IEP either. Our daughter was literally being stalked, and harassed by a teammates dad, and then she was being told she needed to "include" the teammate in social gatherings. No......we only owe peers politeness, we do not owe anyone friendship.

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