Katyia
28 October 2012 11:27PM
A further and very important educational reason why I want my daughter in mainstream is that she needs 1-1 support and this is not provided by special school
hi Jane - - - surely you'd get more support in a special school - - - I do appreciate that people need a choice - - - which you start off saying and then go on to say they are like old peoples home and ghettos - - - thus prejudicing the very idea - - - I myself have been to special need schools and it was what I needed at the time - - -
It is like being told to hand over your baby to someone you dont know and with whom you have no contact
that is one problem with schools generally - - - you can however ask to have contact with the teacher - - - if that is your child - - - and personally I am actually fed up with the way that inclusion is being handled - - - for instance teachers that are trained to teach mainstream kids are not usually given enough training in special needs and its very difficult to give it to them if you think about all the different conditions there are - - - i mean suppose one child has a dissociative disorder and the other had fybromialgia all very different needs - - - Im not saying they can't be included but some flexibility is needed about how that is done - - -
the other thing is that the inclusion movement carries a strong element of peer support whereby peers whether in children's or adult settings are supposed to cater for some of the needs of the special needs person - - - again I am not saying that is impossible but these things have not been thoroughly addressed in a constructive way - - - for instance there may be benefits in doing so but the public would not accept that in its present level of evolution so the move kind of sneaked through - - -
The simple truth is that my daughter is a human being with the right to be included within her own society
I don't see how that is simple to be honest much as I feel concern the three of you - - -
Even worse, my daughter is about to be trapped outside society as well. And it feels like a terrible trap created solely by
sorry you've lost me there what do those two sentences mean - - -
I don't see how that is simple to be honest much as I feel concern the three of you - - -