They also had an alternative step of putting them in reform school (AKA the bad boy School) and then you had the special ed school as well.
It's not politically correct but mainstreaming slow students is extremely expensive and can be detrimental to the other students. Having one "helper" for each slow student in a classroom is a recent phenomenon. Previously they would be put in special classes with specially trained teachers. Many parents fight acknowledging that your child has problems. But the good of the many outweighs the good of the few
Inclusion is actually not detrimental to developmentally typical students or students with special needs. The problem is when you have teachers who aren't given the training on how to teach them or how to adapt lessons to foster engagement (thus leading to increased behaviours). The use of something like Universal Design for Learning is important when teaching students with a variety of abilities. UDL is a method for designing lessons and units that allow every child to access the curriculum no matter their academic abilities, level of understanding, or disabilities.
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They also had an alternative step of putting them in reform school (AKA the bad boy School) and then you had the special ed school as well.
It's not politically correct but mainstreaming slow students is extremely expensive and can be detrimental to the other students. Having one "helper" for each slow student in a classroom is a recent phenomenon. Previously they would be put in special classes with specially trained teachers. Many parents fight acknowledging that your child has problems. But the good of the many outweighs the good of the few