Mother Jones had an article that got me thinking. I am for inclusive education in all cases except for extreme ones. Having worked including with kids with severe disabilities in regular education and recreational settings, I feel it can be set up and done well; one example is the coteaching model they use here in NY.
What about those extreme cases? What is the purpose of this schooling? To apply electric shock to young people as we attempt to get them conforming? See the article that makes me look very fussy for my stance against prefab children's art.
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I am wondering what the purpose of education is for children with extreme needs. I said the article got me thinking; however, I did not say that I endorsed the views of the author. In fact, what I am posing is a more open question: what should we do to "successfully" educate students that go to a place that is a last resort. I did not mean to indicate that Mother Jones' journalist was without bias. I believe that writing is never a "view from nowhere" and there is always subjectivities involved.
To see the response that Mr. Israel wrote you need to go to http://www.judgerc.org/ResponsetoGonnermanArticle.pdf
Personally, I am still opposed to the use of electric shock and would like to know more about all the alternative treatments that are used before such treatment is utilized.
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