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Schools - public schools anyway - seem to stumble the most with accommodating children with disability. No one wants to deal with it. Sometimes budgets and staffing get blamed, but most often it seems to just boil down to people being forced out of their comfort zone and not wanting to deal with the "tards". Happily the societal trend seems to be toward inclusion. Progress is just very slow, with parents (and students) fighting for it every day.

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In the song "Subdivisions", Rush refers to suburbs -- or was it suburban high schools -- as "the mass production zone". Regardless of what they meant, I think that phrase is apt for public schools in general. Mass production works best when the raw materials and the processes are homogeneous across all units. Needless to say, talking about schools and children this way is dehumanizing. But when we look at it this way, is it any wonder that public schools stumble with accommodating children with disabilities? I have no idea what to do about it; just rambling about a possible reason why the problem exists.

they also used to penalize kids who were multilingual too. Some might still do that. It can be a detriment if your child speaks something other than English when young.

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