Perot: Too Much Spent on Learning Disabled
Undeclared presidential candidate Ross Perot once criticized schools for spending a “disproportionate amount of time” on students with learning problems, it was reported Saturday.
The Dallas Morning News reported that in 1983, Perot wrote that schools focus too much on “problem students, students with learning disabilities and students who cannot learn at all.” Schools, Perot wrote, should concentrate on average, above average and gifted students.
“They are our future taxpayers,” he said in a six-page article that he privately circulated. “It is important that they be extremely productive. They will bear the responsibility for caring for those in our society who cannot support themselves.”
Perot aide Tom Luce, responding to the article, said the comments about learning-disabled students do not reflect the Texas billionaire’s view.
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