People with disabilities going only in special schools here

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I tend to agree with what has been said here. It depends on what people want for themselves. I would add a small detail though: It also depends on the possibilities you have. If you can get the necessarily support to follow school in almost standard conditions, like a profesionnal helper who comes with you for the lessons, then you can do either at choice.

I think having people with disability in special schools is very interesting though, for they will probably have small classes size, adapted schedule and avoid some annoyance that could be met in schools with other (email hidden) mentionned that it's also important for them to deal with other people, but I think that they already do that pretty much in everyday life situation or even within their family and neighbourhood.

Differently, but still mentionned by @Pennarossa2024, you can force children to tolerate disabled people as much as you can and explain to them as much as you want some disabilities - just like for adults - it doesn't mean that they will make an "extra effort" to adapt, and I think what @-Kiki- mention with her schoolmate speaks out for that.
Similarly, you can tell to someone "that person is autistic" (which is not a big wall as being deaf in my opinion), it doesn't mean that people will be able or wish to deal with autistic behaviours. So my gut feeling here, is that an schools for disabled people is also to be a place with more people who will probably be willing to put an effort to talk to each others and not to be left out, because being left out is really no fun at school especially.


Exactly. My worries are that no matter how much you try to explain to kids to tolerate them,you can do everything you want but it doesn’t mean they will understand,unfortunately. This happened in my class. Not saying that it could happen everywhere!

i understand @Pennarossa2024 but we can’t control other people. There are many people i know in my school that wouldn’t wish to interact with people with autistic behaviors and that would treat them like they aren’t humans.

Nobody is saying this is right. The world sucks.

and i’ll say it again: those people DESERVE a good education in peace,with love and understanding!

We can try,try and try to educate those stupid people,but they can do what they want,as long as we don’t lock them in a cage.

so,everyone is different and has to make the best choice for their sake and future 🙂



Disabled people cannot be "tolerated". We must respect them and help them. Children with mild disabilities can attend a school with non-disabled children. Children with severe disabilities need a special school. But we have to get disabled and non-disabled people used to living together. If we don't do this, people will fear disabled people or treat them badly or ignore them

Yes, ok, but that's an ideal situation. You can tell as much as you want a child or someone about disabled people, the best you can do is to make them tolerate others, not respect and even less befriend them.
Actually, even in University in a supposedly inclusive region, I have seen autistic people being socially excluded and criticized behind their back, even when there is "awareness". So you can't expect it to be so beautiful in a primary school and see children making ton of efforts to include and befriend people with differences.


I think it's a valuable opportunity to be able to decide whether you want to go to school with "normal" children, or go with people who are different/disabled. If you choose the second, you can have different disabilities that will force you to adapt as well, but probably that your chance to end upsocially excluded because of a factor you have barely any control over will be lower than in standard schools, even if very tolerant regions of the world.

It's not racist to put disabled people in a school for disabled people, it's actually a nice thing to do for them. A school specifically designed for disabled people can offer positive aspects like individualized attention, specialized teaching methods tailored to their needs, a supportive peer group, access to adapted equipment, and a focus on developing life skills. Honestly, schools for disabled people sound better than normal schools to me.

And sure, disabled people need to socialize, but I don't think it's really important that it's with 'normal' people. They are in special schools to learn how to be functional in this crazy world, they don't need to get hurt by rude idiots because of socializing with others.

I think another factor is, people in general don't know a lot about people with disabilities. You could say "that person is autistic/neurological disabled" etc, but most people don't even know what it MEANS.

They only see the disadvantages and base their opinion on things they've heard about the disabilities. They were never educated about the topic, so ofcourse there's going to be judgement and misunderstandings, which lead to leaving a person alone, because you don't have a clue how to interact with them.