Yeah, sure, the behaviorists legislated their philosophy in the 1995 (1997?) reauthorization of IDEA. That was the day I stepped out of the behavioral field.
You can legislate what I do, but you can't legislate what I think (or, for you behaviorists, you can't legislate my automatic reinforcement activity).
I had considered myself a "behaviorist" for approximately fifteen or so years... up until then.
So I don't think the legislation of RWOL would work... just like the legislation of behaviorism didn't work.
"Repression is more detrimental to the oppressor than it is to the oppressed."
Dick Gregory, Human Rights Activist
I do think that special education could [should] be legislated away.
I do think that it could [should] become illegal to call someone learning disabled when we don't know what it really is.
Notice that I'm not asking anyone to do anything... I'm merely asking IEP teams to quit doing what they're doing (i.e., harming students).
I, unlike the behaviorists, would not every try to legislate your mind... but I, like the behaviorist, might try to legislate your, um, behaviors.
