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Truly heartwarming to know that everybody's on the same page. If quoted accurately, I do, however, find Dr. Connolly's comments rather curious. First, the notion that “most students with IEP’s do not have cognitive deficits" is factually incorrect. On virtually any measure of cognitive ability, special ed students simply do not perform at the same level as their non-special ed peers. Dr. Connolly allegedly goes on to say that it is “discriminatory to perpetuate a system in which students with IEP’s are treated differently.” Students with IEP's, by law, must be treated differently simply by virtue of having been identified as having an educational handicap. It's that simple. One gets the sense that political correctness has crept into our education lexicon and practices in which everyone gets a trophy, and no one is below average.