Phineas Worthington
2007-12-10 06:19:10

There is nothing wrong with teaching normal children to have empathy for disabled or abnormal children.

There is something wrong with sacrificing the needs of normal or gifted children to abnormal children who have no academic potential.

It is also a fundamental attack on objective reality to obfuscate the terms of normal and abnormal.

All this is done on a daily basis in our government schools by the edicts of altruism and nihilism so prevalent today.

The problem with criminality of people/children with diminished mental capacity would be remedied by simply holding them to the same high moral standards as normal children. Special needs children need clear boundaries even more than normal children.

Full inclusion programs should be limited to only children with academic potential. Anyone knows that a group, or class, is only as strong as its weakest member. Too often it seems that the disabled are not raised so much as the able are brought down. And the gifted are forgotten and their needs are dismissed.