Why include? Challenging the inclusion policy
By Beautiful Cloud
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 4, 2009
It is unfair to incorporate a disabled student into a classroom of non-disabled students. To throw a child with learning disabilities into a classroom that doesn’t accommodate to his/her needs is the same as sending an animal that was raised in captivity into the wild. Both will have difficulties acclimating into the new environment and survival is unlikely.
An example of this was noticed in one of the classes I observed. In an eighth grade class studying English, I was surprised to notice a few students who were challenged in English. These students, as soon as they walked into the class, placed their heads on their desks and fell asleep. Unlike other times where they would go to a resource room to accommodate their disability, this day, the language teacher was attending a conference and therefore could not teach the students. The English teacher, who was not in-charge of the ESL students, ignored the special needs students and only focused on her students.
Unfortunately, the ESL teacher did not provide any work for the students. The students were forced to stay in a classroom where the topic was as foreign to them as it would be for an American student to be placed in a classroom in Korea with no prior knowledge. Because the students could not follow along with the lesson, the only thing they were capable of was sleeping or chatting with each other. And if these students did end up chatting amongst each other, they would be disrupting the class. As it is unfair to the disabled students to be in a class of students without disabilities, it is also unfair to the non-disabled students.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 4, 2009
It is unfair to incorporate a disabled student into a classroom of non-disabled students. To throw a child with learning disabilities into a classroom that doesn’t accommodate to his/her needs is the same as sending an animal that was raised in captivity into the wild. Both will have difficulties acclimating into the new environment and survival is unlikely.
An example of this was noticed in one of the classes I observed. In an eighth grade class studying English, I was surprised to notice a few students who were challenged in English. These students, as soon as they walked into the class, placed their heads on their desks and fell asleep. Unlike other times where they would go to a resource room to accommodate their disability, this day, the language teacher was attending a conference and therefore could not teach the students. The English teacher, who was not in-charge of the ESL students, ignored the special needs students and only focused on her students.
Unfortunately, the ESL teacher did not provide any work for the students. The students were forced to stay in a classroom where the topic was as foreign to them as it would be for an American student to be placed in a classroom in Korea with no prior knowledge. Because the students could not follow along with the lesson, the only thing they were capable of was sleeping or chatting with each other. And if these students did end up chatting amongst each other, they would be disrupting the class. As it is unfair to the disabled students to be in a class of students without disabilities, it is also unfair to the non-disabled students.
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