Since the 1980's more and more school have began to practice the technique of inclusion in their classrooms. Inclusion is a term which expresses commitment to educate each child to the maximum extent appropriate, in the classroom he or she would otherwise attend Inclusion.Most schools began this process by main streaming. Main streaming is usually refers to the selective placement of special education students in one or more "regular" education classes For example a student with a learning disabilities would have some classes in the "regular"classroom and other classes would be segregated. The idea is that eventually they would be able to be completely included in the "regular"class. There is one more term that will be helpful in the understanding of this paper and that is full inclusion. Full inclusion means that all students, no matter what their handicap, will be in a "regular"classroom full time.( Education Resources...) The general difference between main streaming and inclusion is that people in favor of main streaming believe that a child with disabilities first belongs in the special education environment and that the child must earn his or her way into
the "regular" education environment. Those who support inclusion believe that the child always should begin in the "regular" environment and be removed only when appropriate services cannot be provided in the "regular" classroom.( Education Resources....)Then there are some people that believe that "regular" students and special education students should be segregated at all times. Those people think that the disabled students will be disruptive and eventually cause more problems for the other students because they would be such a distraction. When I first began this paper I had taken the position that the special education students should be segregated from the other students at all times. I believed that they took attention away from the other students which put the "regular" kids at a huge disadvantage. . However when I began to do research on this topic I realized that there is so much more information to consider. The counter argument against inclusion is understandable. It makes sense that a special education student would require extra attention and would therefore take attention away from other kids. Some would also believe that the teacher may have to tak
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