Mrs. Betty

I spoke to one of the special education teachers at my high school to find out her opinion on inclusion. Mrs. Betty was very strong in her beliefs that she does not like inclusion. She has had many experiences with children being shoved into a classroom and no one there to keep an extra eye on this child, and the child ends up hurting himself or someone else. She recalled one student she had that was put in a class with 30 children and one teacher. It is hard enough to keep 30 students, but on top of that having a child that needed extra help was just too much to ask. The child began to grow anxious and attacked the student next to her. Mrs. Betty explained that this would have never happened if the student would have been in special education.