it has to be workable for everyone....not just one...not just two...but everyone that will be involved.
And there are viable solutions. Egos of the adults have to stay out of the way.
“t has to be workable for everyone....not just one...not just two...but everyone that will be involved.
And there are viable solutions. Egos of the adults have to stay out of the way.”
Sorry i have to disagree. It has to work for a majority, but no one thing will ever work for everybody.
Again, my experience has been that it works for most of the kids. I don’t have my son in an inclusion class because it didn’t work for him after about the 2nd grade, and I felt it was just wasting everyones time, plus taking up a spot in the regular class that someone else could use, but he did mainstream into a language class, to learn to spell....he’s very good at this now and communicates via a word program.
the language skills are now being taught in his life skills class.
“And there are viable solutions. Egos of the adults have to stay out of the way.”
I do agree with this part. I don’t think it’s ego so much as denial on the part of SOME parents. They want their children to be “normal” and somehow hope inclusion can do that. All the special parents know about the bargaining phase. that’s where you argue with your child’s doctor to get him to say your child isn’t FILL IN THE BLANK but it doesn’t matter what you call it, it is what it is. I could stop calling my son autistic and say he has pink polka dot dyspepsia, I’ve still got the same kid with the same issues tomorrow.