"In an ideal world, special education would not be a distinct system at all, but just part of an education system that gives due consideration to all sorts of kids, with all sorts of difficulties, in all sorts of schools." I think that this qoute provides a remarkable look into the way society treats our disabled students. Why are they not integrated into the education system? If these students are taught something a little more than sitting a room all day or just simply neglected and left out of the curriculum, they may provide various roles in society. "I've seen children stuck in a classroom, isolated, where staff have no support and can't call in a psychologist or language therapist."

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"There is understandable anxiety that our students are not being as well trained in reading, math, and science as their European and Asian counterparts" (Hirsch 3).