"Scott Weiser" wrote in message
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A Usenet persona calling itself William R. Watt wrote:


don't you guys knwo how to edit out old verbiage?

Stephen Hawking does not have an intellectual disability. I haven't been

He was in no way disabled as a child.

I disagree with forcing kids to "socialize". It can be terribly traumatic
to an intelligent sensitive mind. If a kid want's to be alone with his or
her thoughts then leave him or her be.

Bad idea. It results in isolated, depressed, socially-inept people who are
rarely successful or happy in later life.

Sometimes it ends up in suicide.

That's what mainstreaming does, because it teaches the person with a
disability that they are useless (since they are just filling up space
watching someone else's curriculum) and it teaches the non-disabled peers
the same thing (since they can see that the person is just filling up
space).