My Mum...
... teaches pottery to special needs students (I've probably already made some kind of faux-pas by describing them as Special Needs as opposed to window lickers or whatever the PC task force have decided to call people of that unfortunate ilk this quarter), but also to a wide age range of able bodied folk.

Anyway, she's very good and even the pieces that she gets the children of mong to produce are great. I've been in a couple of times when she's been teaching them, and she's got a range of abilities from Same Heads (Down Syndrome) right through to those who make the odd prime evil screech and wave their head whilst strapped to a wheel chair (whilst probably figuring out the depths of the universe).

She however has to fill out report forms in exactly the same way as A-level students to "monitor progress". So in her words, whilst with her A-level students the term objective might be say to make a number of pieces using various disciplines, in Special Peoples' Art Class (OK they don’t call it that), a student's objective might be "to raise their head"... with further drill down of "Did the student achieve their objective? If yes, how did they demonstrate this whilst if not, then why not". I saw my mum having to write these out... and even she was beginning to just put more and more sarccy responses.

Length girth... no don't ask my mum.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 20:39, Reply)