For Students, Not Being Disabled Is the New Disability

No one has yet been made to carry lead balls or wear transmitters in Canada, but the drive to disadvantage the able, especially in education, has become pathological in this country. Jannis Tobias Werner/Shutterstock

Commentary

Last year, Israel’s Ministry of Education released data that reveals how school accommodation for students with mental disabilities has become a farce. According to a July report in Arutz Sheva Israel National News, the ministry’s figures indicate that in one Israeli community, 83 percent of grade 12 students received extra time on their exams along with other accommodations, while in other places significantly more than half the class did so. In these schools, a non-disabled minority were required to perform under more demanding conditions than everyone else.