We agree on the right for an education. It's just that the education for someone with an IQ of 40 will look different from that of someone with an IQ of 140.
Agreed. But some people seem to think that the low IQ kids don't need or deserve education. They do. But it should not come at the expense of normal IQ or high IQ kids. Unfortunately, it does because the only way special ed kids can get the best education is to be mainstreamed with a special aide to help them. I know because my brother's oldest two kids are high IQ kids and his youngest has Down Syndrome. Mainstreamed - but left back two years in a row at his parents' request - he reads and does arithmetic better than most of the kids in his first grade class. Next year they will move him to second grade so he can get his reading up to par too. He may stay in second grade for a couple of years till his speech ability catches up to everyone else's. By then, he will know how to read, write and do math - in a regular class.