I will respond in more detail later, but that is some serious bullshit to characterize SpEd and reg ed kids as being as different as dogs and cows. They are all kids, on a continuum, with a line arbitrarily drawn at one point. Kids on one side of that line are given a great deal more in resources, but the prevailing paradigm in SpEd is mainstreaming/LRE. Most people in SpEd would find that analogy offensive but also just very poor in descriptive terms. I anticipated someone taking a line like this and specifically tried to head it off in an earlier post. I didn’t think it would be you, though, Kimstu! Disappointing.
Would that this were true. That would mean no expectation that schools equalize test scores (which, yes, include the vast majority of SpEd kids: only the most severely intellectually disabled are granted waivers) between white and black kids. No NCLB, no “Waiting for Superman”, and no me engaging in this argument. I would be free to do what would be much more comfortable: wincing with distaste at anyone rubbing black peoples’ noses in their lower IQ scores.