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From: era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: classroom groupings
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Date: 13 Feb 90 03:46:12 GMT
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Index Number: 6702

In article <10015@bunker.UUCP> OAKRIDGE@BYUVM.BITNET (Kevin Morris) writes:
|Index Number: 6614
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|We are a school which serves students with multiple handicaps.  We
|are interest ed in any thoughts or experience you might have
|regarding the appropriate crite ria for the grouping of students so
|that education is most efficient.  We are particularly interested
|in your experience in grouping students according to chronological
|age versus grouping them according to developmental ability.

You can't mainstream/integrate if you group students strictly according
to developmental ability; it's not done that way in what I consider
progressive school districts.  If you're confining handicapped students
to their own school without exposure to non-disabled students, then it's
clear your school district needs new leadership.

BTW - this post is NOT meant to be a flame.  If you do have a segregated
district, however, please e-mail me; I'd be more than happy to put you
in touch with people who are working to change the next generation's
view of disabled persons, thru progressive school environments.
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