Regarding Miriam Kurtzig Freedman's "'Mainstreaming' Special-Ed Students Needs Debate" (op-ed, Aug. 5): I, too, think it is well past time for a national debate regarding our disgraceful history of educating children with special needs. As a former New York City special-education teacher and the mother of a child with special needs, I have witnessed first hand the marginalization of children by administrators because these mentally challenged children weren't required to take standardized tests. I have also been told by my administrators that when it comes to "testable special-needs children," they...