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This 7 page paper discusses the pros and cons of inclusion in the modern education system. Examples given, studies examined. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others." The truth in Helen Kellers words still echo inside the
mind when considering the awesome task asked of a person who is a teacher. It would seem that the already insurmountable task of the public school teacher has been made
monumentally more difficult with the mandated inclusion of students into normal or regular classrooms. Students who are included benefit, but there are also drawbacks to inclusion. The student may wish
to begin by stating that originally, mainstreaming (or inclusion) was the idea that those with certain handicaps be it mental or physical, could still benefit from inclusion with the rest
of the normal school society. Con: Little thought, it seems, was given to the feelings of the students who will be ushered into the foreign classroom. Pro:It was felt that
the exposure of these students to the school population would push them to achieve more than they ever would have attempted in a segregated classroom situation. In the preface
to Mainstreaming: Educable Mentally Retarded Children in Regular Classes, Maynard C. Reynolds declared mainstreaming to be "based on the principle of educating most children in the same classrooms and providing
special education on the basis of learning needs rather than categories of handicaps"(Wilcox, Wigle, 1997, pg 371). Children would be exposed to a miniaturized version of society and its diversity
of personalities. Total inclusion can be disastrous, however. The same researcher, Reynolds also did a series of studies in various schools throughout the country to see how effective mainstreaming
actually was and how it benefited or potentially harmed the student. What he discovered was that the more successful schools integrated the student for most of the class subjects, but
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