June 29, 2020
In the sense I had a 504 plan and received accommodations from the beginning, I had the "special education" label from preschool through high school.
The phrase means different things to different people, often depending on the context. But when I personally think of the label, the first image that pops into my head is of a big wooden chair with SPED in big black letters written across the back from seventh grade. It was one of my classroom chairs, but I picture it in an isolated room where I dictated my tests.