Should My Wordless Kid Go to School with Your Normal Child?
My wife is a public school teacher (1st grade for 17 years) and has seen it all, as mainstreaming AKA “inclusion” waxes and wanes. There are many “special” kids who need just a little extra help, who can benefit from the regular classroom — and who can genuinely broaden the others’ horizons — and then there are those who are *major* distractions whose presence negatively impacts the actual learning of academic *content* (ya, know, wht they’re there for) as opposed to warm & fuzzy life lessons.
Unfortunately, when the PC bleeding hearts are in charge all common sense goes out the door in terms of deciding which kids are in the first group and which are truly in the second.
P.S. As a practical point, the use of the PC term “neurotypical” instead of “normal” instantly rubbed me the wrong way. It’s one thing to ask/demand special consideration for one’s special needs child, and quite another to simultaneously semi-deny there’s anything wrong.
