Should My Wordless Kid Go to School with Your Normal Child?
Wow, there is a lot of animosity on this thread! I guess I fall in the same category as Charlie on this one: of course you educate special needs kids. Yes, there will always be people who take advantage of the system, but you target them for shame, not the entire concept of special-needs education!
I went to a very small, privately funded Christian school. Now when I say privately funded, that means that we used the back of milk reports that parents donated for scrap paper and we had one computer lab for the whole school. You know what–we managed and we managed well.
We even managed to educate the few special needs kids we had at our school. There weren’t a lot, but there were some. It wasn’t an issue of mainstreaming, there was only one room for all the 2nd graders, including special needs kids. Most often it was a parent or other relative that acted as the “aide” if one was needed, but the school did employ one if no one from the family was available.
Did they have to pay more than any other kid? Nope. Did other parents bitch about it? Maybe, but not in public, that’s for sure! They would have been ashamed. All of the children in our school were taught that they were made in the image of God and that all were equal before God, so the “issue” of educating or not educating a child with special needs wasn’t really an issue at all.
