Thursday, and one of my grand children, Nikki, visits, and I cook her dinner. She is a smashing girl, 19 years old, and training to be a primary school teacher.

Two days each week she has in school training at a local primary school, a class of twenty 7/8 year old, the teacher of the class is a young lady of 24, that is, about 2 years of experience, Nikki thinks that she is wonderful.

The mixed class has, one boy with Downs Syndrome, one child that is autistic, one that has dyspraxia and two with dyslexia, that is one quarter of the class has problems. Is this average for classrooms today? I agree with Nikki, I think that the teacher is wonderful.

Unfortunately this causes great problems in teaching the other 15 children. The young lad with Downs does have a specially trained teacher for most of the time but not at all times, he tends to lash out at other children, unintentionally, this causes great disruption in the classroom and could be cause for harm to his classmates.

It would appear that the parents of these children have the right to demand that their child attends a "normal" school, and I can understand this desire, but would it be better for all concerned if those with special teaching requirement attended a school that could give more time and attention? Some child is missing out on education.

Many years ago it was rarely that you noticed those that were disabled, today there seem to be many more, are there more cases occurring? Why, when our doctors have gathered so much more information on these conditions?

Maybe the answer is that in those days the problems were being hidden by segregation, that can't be the right answer either.

Is there a right or wrong action?

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