Discrimination And Discrimination And Separation For Students With Disabilities

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Discrimination and Separation for Students with Disabilities Have you ever thought that maybe some students with disabilities are being discriminated and separated and shouldn’t be? Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of differences between people. This is especially on race and age. According to five different Federal Laws, discrimination against students with disabilities and separating them from others was supposed to be outlawed in all educational federal funding schools. How someone with a disability can be discriminated is based on their race, color, sex, and disability. This matter with discrimination and separating students with disabilities has been an issue for a long time; even with Federal Laws in placed, but some people …show more content…

By not including these students with disabilities, it is like we are not allowing them to have the same fun experiences other students their ages are doing. In an example David M. Perry mentioned, “Last month the teacher put on Readers Theater (in which kids acted out books) and told us [the parent] in an email that “Nico [their son with disability] would get to participate as an audience member.”” How is this fair for Nico? What if he wanted to act out books with his classmates? This isn’t fair and students with disabilities shouldn’t be excluded like this; it is like we are putting them under discrimination. What some people in the society don’t know is how it truly affects the student with the disability who is being excluded. According to Tom Ledcke, who teaches in special education, “…my students could feel that they were ‘outsiders’.” Outsiders are of someone who does not belong in either a group or society. In this case these students with disabilities feel isolated or alone from everyone, so they feel like they don’t belong. People today are still arguing if we are indeed doing are best to include these students in inside and outside activities. So the question is are

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