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Originally Posted by Point Blank
And the most annoying thing I hear from UCP supporters who want to undermine public education is their rants about inclusion. While I think there’s conversations to be had about best practices with complex learners, it’s almost always done in bad faith in an attempt to highlight the failures of public education.
Failures that the UCP manufactured due to inadequate funding.
They’ll talk about how classes shouldn’t be disrupted by complex learners. But then in the same breath would support Nicolaides’ statement that class sizes don’t affect achievement outcomes. So which one is it? Do they want better supports for complex learners or not?
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I agree that a UCP rant about inclusion is often misaimed and misinformed. However, as an educator that worked in the CBE when it had specialized schools and after, I can honestly say inclusion is a failure and we need to admit and adjust course.
It's a funding disaster that results in students with needs getting less service and support than otherwise in a ridiculous claim that inclusion works. It doesn't, it has been an abismal failure.
When we make claims that UCP rants about inclusion are ridiculous, which they are, we need to also address that the far left claims that it is a holy grail of educaiton are equally bull#####. Inclusion has been one of the greatest failings of educaiton in Calgary.
The second greatest failing was when those in charge read maybe half of John Hattie's work, saw that he said class size has low impact, stopped reading and ran with it. Hence our current situation.