KMAN contributes:
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You might want to learn more about what goes on when students with
intellectual disabilities are placed in the mainstream classes, and see
if
the results are as you expect.

What most students with intellectual disabilities need more than
anything is
a peer group, just like the rest of us sought out in high school. They
want
peers they can relate to and they want friends - real friends - who
spend
time with them on weekends and during the summer.

They also need a curriculum that meets their needs....

None of that is taught in a Grade 12 chemistry class... What is
happening is the
kid with the disabilitiy is picking his nose and playing with his
pecker,
which is in my view a toally appropriate response to being in an
environment
that has absolutely no relevance, and an environment where everyone
else
there can see that you are totally out of place and is reaching all
sorts of
disparaging conclusions about you.
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WOW! KMAN, your insights are bang-on.

frtzw906