Sally French thinks this is problematic because saying that blind people want to be treated normally is saying that people without disabilities are all normal and striving to do their best in the workplace. In other words, she says that everybody in the workplace is trying to do their best and accomplish all that they can, not just disabled people.
Almost every paragraph is Sally French writing about how cynical she is toward the treatment of disabled people such as herself. She is very judgmental about the poor treatment and even the positive treatment that many misinformed non-disabled people try to give the handicapped.
Shapiro is saying that minorities are half as likely to be labeled with a learning disability as caucasians but when they are labeled, there double the likelihood of being put into special education. His reasoning is best explained by the average IQ levels of inner city kids with learning disabilities and white suburban kids with learning disabilities. Inner city kids had an IQ of 81 while white suburban kids had 103. The reason for this is the varying ways that schools "diagnose" a learning disability from state to state.
The ADA and IDEA changed the view of adults and children with disabilities from a medical problem to an issue of civil rights. This like any other civil rights movements leads to backlash and the Department of Justice has also stepped in to give rights to it's disabled citizens.
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