(Response anonymous is referring to)
While I agree that it’s important to provide disabled students with a safe place, I don’t believe full exclusion is necessarily the best option. More emphasis should be placed on teaching students who are not disabled acceptance rather than hiding disabled students from their peers’ intolerance. People are not inherently prejudiced against people with disabilities; they are taught and conditioned to behave this way.
Some schools have implemented the practice of “mainstreaming”; disabled students are integrated into regular education classes during an allotted time, but also have access to a special education room. I’ve heard that disabled students that receive this kind of education have been more successful academically, but I really don’t know enough about it to confirm or refute that claim.
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