My point is that this was not unusual. It is, in many ways, the histoical norm. Most researchers and innovators who invented these terms were concerned to enhance the situation of people in the category. What happened in the classroom and in institutions and in policy, was a different matter altogether.
IQ tests for example were originally intended to allow students who were struggling to be assisted. They were not intended to label or to divide, as they have since been used.
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Date: 2009-09-14 11:48 am (UTC)IQ tests for example were originally intended to allow students who were struggling to be assisted. They were not intended to label or to divide, as they have since been used.