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Originally Posted by Cain
Tired. Some good arguments either way. I'd love it if it were as sworkhard suggested and private schools were a variable subsidy so that kids with learning disabilities that actually needed extra teacher time could afford to go instead of being caught in the public system because they do not have the financial resources to attend a different school.
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One thing that not a lot of people are aware of is the
huge effort people with cognitive and physical disabilities went to to be
included in the public system. The vast majority of people with disabilities, their families, and their allies are not interested and do not want separate schools, regardless of the quality of those schools.
Most of the academic research also supports the notion that including people with disabilities in regular classes, with appropriate support, has vastly better outcomes for both people with disabilities and for able-children who are in the classroom with them.
It's very important to recognize that children with disabilities are not "caught" in the public system and the best thing for them is not to separate them into specialist schools, regardless of the quality of those schools. The best thing is to provide the necessary personnel and materials to support these students within the context of a 'regular' classroom.