When I think about the idea of inclusion I think about all the students that I have come in contact with throughout my life. There are many different kinds of students with many different ways of learning. I remember a girl in my high school math class that was so proud to be "classified" and I always wondered why. She enjoyed the extra time on tests and the extra attention from teachers. This made the idea of inclusion seem unfair to others in the class and didn't like the way she got what seemed to be special treatment.
After learning more about what inclusion is and how it works I think in this day and age where in schools being "different" is considered a bad thing it would be hard to include everyone. It is a more realistic goal to set in 5 years where younger students who are exposed to people who are different than them from the beginning would not have to question it as it would be there from the beginning.
Moving on to the No Child Left Behind Law, this law seems to be more of a hassle it is one of those things that could be talked about for hours. There is a screwed up system in place where the money and the funding is not provided for the goals that have been set. While I fully support being a highly qualified teacher, I can not support something that holds these same highly qualified teachers responsibile for test scores and not the way they teach their students. It seems that this law his taken away from teaching and narrowed the curriculum to what is on the test. There is much more for a student to learn, even in life skills, that can be beneificial. NCLB is a lofty goal which would be amazing to reach and I do not mean to seem pesimistic but it seems as if it is set up for failure in schools that lack funding.
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Your thoughts on inclusion are really interesting Luke. I too have come across peers who enjoy this "classified" title and in fact because of it seem to try less and not display any care for their work or school in general. They would somewhat tease the rest of us about the fact that they have extra time on their tests and it really didn't mattered if they studied or not. They knew that they would receive extra help on these tests, but they would take advantage of this, and that was frustrating for the rest of us.
I know what you mean. I remember when I was younger, certain students would brag about how they got extra time on tests. I actually went home to my mom one day and asked if I could be classifed too. She just looked at me like, "why???" But anyway, I do feel that students often get confused as to why others get extra time and they don't.
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