maandag, januari 24, 2005

 

Our Ideas About The School Thing

More specifically: we'd like to see a separate small group of children within the regular school, in a separate classroom, with a separate (specialized) teacher plus classroom assistant. Whenever the individual child is able, he or she can join his peers in the bigger classroom. This can be in math, in preparing for Easter, singing or learning to write or art or whatever. Whatever the child can handle and whatever the parents and teachers think and feel is right.
In The Netherlands every child that enjoys regular education and DOES still need a bit of extra care, will get extra financing. The child can stay in that school with just a bit of extra help. It's called 'The Backpack'. Put 6 of these Backpacks together and we're able to finance our idea. Provided there is room for a classroom.
Benefits for the school: the 'regular' kids get to know kids with a handicap, the school can introduce a kind of buddy-system and this has proven to work vice-versa. The government wants ALL children to go to school together, but this would be a practical worked out idea how to do it. It's so simple, we can't see why it's not all over the country yet...when it IS in Scandinavia.

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