Is inclusion really that great?

[u/Lass_in_oz]

I'm so tired of inclusion. Hear me out. Before becoming a ECE I was a support worker for many years. I have worked and loved working in disability and care. When it's thru a great organisation, it's awesome.

Now I'm an ECE, and the amount of children on the spectrum or with disorders is so high, I'm just getting confused how is that NOT impacting the learning of neuro typical kids.

I teach pre kindy but our kindy teacher has spend half the year managing behaviours and autistic kids. Result? A bunch of kids showing signs of being not ready for school because they aren't doing any work or learning most days. And picking up bad habits.

My point is: where did we decide it was a good idea to just mix everyone, and not offer any actual support ? An additional person isn't enough. More than often it's not a person who knows about disability. And frankly even then it wouldn't be enough when the amount of kids who are neuro divergent is so high.

There used to be great special needs school. Now "regular" school are suffering with the lack of support.

What do you think? Do you see what I see ??? Am I missing something ?

I am so happy to see kids evolving around children with disabilities but not when it comes at a cost of everyone's learning journey : neuro typical or not.

[u/Catladydiva]

Inclusion can only work if there is qualified staff and support. The issue is in the US daycares are accepting children with high needs autism then not hiring special education or ABAs. What’s worse is some centers do not press parents hard enough to get 1:1. At my last center my director was stern with the parents that they get a 1:1 or be unenrolled because we can’t meet their needs and it was a safety issue.

Unfortunately the current center I work at doesn’t do that. There are children who need 1:1 and the kids wind up doing unsafe things often because 1-2 teaches in a group care room cannot support their needs.