Inclusion...it's really basically simple!

Inclusion...it's really basically simple! If those that teach would just be more open to the possibilities...the possibilities can be endless!! What is so wrong with being flexible to think-outside-of-the-box and try new ways in how today's classrooms are run and curriculum is 'delivered'...ALL can benefit when trying a different approach or teaching just a little bit differently than how things have always been done, especially if you have been teacher the same way for so long. TRY A NEW APPROACH with a new attitude about it! Inclusion...what is so wrong with wanting to create a truly inclusive environment...not just ONE CLASSROOM but entire school campuses!

I wish our principals and teachers understood more of why it's so important for EVERYONE to be included. Everyone wants to belong, everyone NEEDS to feel they belong but because some are born with something that makes them look or act or think differently than the majority, is not a reason not to be 'allowed' what everyone else is allowed...freedom, it's now a basic CIVIL RIGHT to be allowed! They have to live with the fact that out there in the real world they will be looked at with stares, treated differently, treated unfairly and bullied. Ignored and overlooked...etc...lots of negative 'things people do' to make others feel bad and left out.

At our schools...gosh, why can't INCLUSION be the norm and encouraged to be practiced? With all the Character Education 'curriculum' that is used today to teach how to treat others...inclusion if allowed...would do that!

Seems everyone has their own idea on what Inclusion is or is not...What do you think about Inclusion in our schools?

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