you can't make this stuff up!

My current summer semester class is Exceptional Children, both gifted & with special needs.  Here is a quote from my textbook, I kid you not:
"Identifying Vision Problems:
     Warning signs:
           * inability to see well"

Wow.  YOU DON"T SAY.  Wouldn't that kind of be the definition of "vision problems"?

Then it goes on to include another checklist, for determining a different health issue.  "Check for the following clinical signs.  Does the child bring in assignments sent home?  Does the child play with classmates?  Does the child react to stimuli?  Does the child ever show any signs of movement?  Does the child in fact breathe?  If the answer to all of these questions was 'no', this child appears to be dead.  Do you still not follow?  His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-CHILD!!"

(yeah, just kiddin', you know the book didn't say that, but I just had to work in this Monty Python reference-- that's a classic skit.  If you haven't seen it, you need to)