Should My Wordless Kid Go to School with Your Normal Child?
Anyone knows that a group, or class, is only as strong as its weakest member.
Yes. A group, or a class — or a family, or a nation — is only as strong as its weakest member.
What hogwash. As the sibling of a woman with disabilities at least as profound as Schuyler’s, I can tell you that my sister’s presence in my life has strengthened me. She is a vital part of the lives of my own children for a hundred reasons — not least because their relationship with her makes them better, more thoughtful, more caring people.
Academic mainstreaming isn’t always the solution for kids with serious disabilities — after a while it became clear that it wasn’t the best solution for my sister. But to suggest that the presence of a child with disabilities in a classroom necessarily “weakens” that class is preposterous.
