My preschool and elementary school years

I was born with a disabilty. As a baby I did things late in life like talking and taking my first step in life. My parents decided to test me to see what was wrong.They came up that I had a learning disabilty and probably needed to go to a special school as a preschooler and maybe beyound that. I ended up going to a small nursery school program in a church. Unfortunately it does not exhist anymore. Then went to a Boces preschool program in a church which was great because it had small classes and tons of attention. When I was five years old I went to my local elementary school. I was put in self contained class with kids from kindergarten to second grade. There was a couple of teachers so they each took a grade of kids. I went out for specials which were art,music,computer,physical education, library and lunch. Then when i was in third grade I switched to another classroom that was second and third graders.It was a room on the stage. There were not windows and barly a door.They stuck 12 kids in a really small room. We had a new teacher and also an old teacher.I did the usually stuff like go out for specials.Halfway though the year they decided to put me in some regular classes with regular ed kids for english and a little bit of math class.It made my self confidence level go up.It was a great feeling.Then forth grade came and inclusion started.Inclusion is when you take a special ed kid and put them in a regular education class but with a seperate teacher that is there to help those kids in need of help. I also had a resource teacher and cirlce of friends which is you budy a special ed kid with a reguar ed kid. I had someone to play on the playground with and eat lunch with. There were some problems with that year.I gained 40 lbs because i guess it is a new thing,stressed me out and I thought i had to do all the work that the other kids were doing. I remember taking all of the state tests which to this day i think they are pointless.