RJA #3b: Research Topic Focus

Mainstream Education

• Mainstream education gives the student with disabilities the feeling of being normal.
• The teachers are not trained in special education.
• Students with disabilities take most of the time away from students with no disabilities.
• It cost more to mainstream education.
• mainstreaming benefits both disabled & non disabled by showing them how diverse the world is.
• Mentally disabled students who graduate are not at the same level as non-disabled with same degree.
• Disabled people(mentally) may never enter society as contributing member, so school is wasted time and funding them.
• Costs to school system to separate diversity and cater to the needs outweigh benefits and cost of separate schools.
  
• Disadvantages with separating disabled students.
• Define disabled and mentally challenged.
• Teachers trained in special education having enough funding/supports to handle classes of mentally challenged students.
• Students without disabilities actions towards disabled students and the effect on disabled.