Special Needs: Social & School Integration or Segregation?

[GOLTZBORG]

During normal daily working hours within the public sector, are individuals who have "Special Needs" ( physical and mental ) integrated or segregated within your nation's society; especially with regards to your nation's school systems ? (not to be equated with one's private life and time)

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OOC: There are those who claim that segregation is best for those individuals who have Special Needs, since their needs require special services and trained staff; however, then there are those who believe that the whole of society is strengthened when the whole population of a nation can engage and interact, not only when people are enjoying relaxation times...but also during work hours while at school or on the job.

NOTE: In today's real world USA, local school boards exercise various options on this issue; with some local school systems segregating their Special Needs students by providing "Special Schools" staffed with specially trained teachers; while other local school systems decide on providing and promoting full scale integration within their local facilities.

[Maraque]

Tsvarchivan society doesn't exclude anyone. Special Needs individuals have resources and amenities available to them to help them in their everyday lives and activities, including education and the workforce. We do not believe in segregation.

[Saurisisia]

Human and Reptilian students go to Segregated schools, same with teachers and other school staff.

[Mount Shavano]

The parents of handicapped children send them to whichever school they think best. Actually, it works that way for all children here.

[Fatatatutti]

In Fatatatutti, all children are treated as individuals. Every student has his or her program tailored to his or her needs, interests, ambitions, etc.

Children who are "differently abled" are accomodated in the schools. If a school has a deaf child, then the whole school is encouraged to learn sign language. Such schools consider themselves "special" schools with skills that "ordinary" schools don't have.

Most schools are built on one level and have ramps instead of steps anyway, so wheelchairs can be easily accomodated.

Teachers tend to go, naturally enough, where their skills are needed. In some cases, children will go to a particular school because of a particular teacher who is there. Most often, however, they prefer to go to school in their own neighbourhoods.

-- Schuyler Marmish, Minister of Education

[Great Kingston]

All children take academic tests before entering a certain secondary school which best suits their level. Children with special needs will go to schools based on their test marks, just like any other child. If their marks are in the bottom 5% of the country then they will be sent to schools with specialist teaching techniques to deal with that, just as any particularly unacademic children without special needs will go to the same school. Obviously though, if the child's parents enter the child into a private school then the government has no control over how they are taught.

[Jbeil]

Children with special needs go to normal schools.
All schools in large towns and cities must have a "Special Children's Wing" attached to the rest of the school.
The children can interact with the other, normal children, but their classes are located within that part of the school.

[Diol]

The empire, as a free and fair nation for everyone [/sarcasm] allows parents and students to chose where they go.

What nation would not use that system.