Inclusion. What is it?

hi folks,

This is just a brief blog to say in the shortest way possible that our schools are very creative in finding ways to keep kids with learning differences a far as possible from "other" kids. Rather than including special students in regular classes they often make a new catagory of classes that have "attributes of regular classes" like regular teachers and some regular students but they are not really regular classes.

This happens because school people do not believe that kids with special needs really can be serviced in regular normal environments. So, they don't try. Instead they make up new kinds of environments and give them nice names. They put these new classes on a "continuum of services" and their job is done.

Kids with special needs are still segregated from the mainstream. Job not done!
Kids with special needs are grouped in low performing, low expectation classes. Job not done!
Mainstream teachers and students do not get the opportunity to be enriched by sharing space and challenges with a very
important segment of their communities. Job not done!
People continue to see learning needs, differences and challenges as deviance and/or sickness. Job not done!
Regular education teachers do are not required to deepen their understandings of curriculum and student learning. Job not don't.
American education continues to give less than adequate preparation to its citizens because it resists growth, effort and change.
It is a real "no brainer" my friends. The reason for so many uneducated people on the streets is that public education has failed to keep up with the needs of individuals and families in modern society.

Wake up.