Inclusion In Classroom

Inclusion is the belief that all students, regardless of labels should be members of the general education community (Pratt). Inclusion favors the idea of bringing support systems to the student instead of moving the student out of the classroom to the support service. The fight for inclusion began as race relations in schools were resolved, and parents of those with disabilities to believe special education students deserved the same rights as everyone else.
The movement for inclusion was sparked in 1954 when the government ruled in the decision of Brown vs Board of Education, that children could not be separated due to race(Torreno). The type of thinking behind Brown vs BOE soon carried over to the special needs area. Advocates for those with special needs started to fight for equal education for all, even those with disabilities. The number of disabled students admitted to public schooling slowly increased, but many of these students were still being segregated because of their needs. (Torreno).
Real inclusion, however did not practically begin until the 1990s when IDEA was revised in 1997 and again in 2004 to include provisions that were overlooked in the original act (Torreno). The newly transformed IDEA now requires government money to provide disabled students with supplementary aids, and the tools general education students receive. IDEA does not necessarily mandate inclusion in the classroom. If a student fails to show educational success, or cause disturbances the school is allowed to move them to a more restrictive environment. IDEA has led to equal rights for those with learning disabilities; creating a new wave of