Assignment 2 Devon Land English 102-17 Heather Julien November 8, 2001 Assignment 2 draft 3 Segregation in Special Education Laws and acts have been passed to stop the segregation. Why is it that education is for the children and the childs education is to be the foremost in mind, school systems have bent the laws and acts passed in order to receive additional federal funding and yet special education is still lacking? All the articles about the legal history I have read, the words provided additional federal funds has had to be included in each act or law in order for the local school systems to do anything for special education. In the early 1900s the disabled children were moved to day schools where they went to school during the day and then returned home in the afternoon. This was after the first White House Conference on children in 1910 (Lodge Rogers, et al 221). After the 1910 Conference special segregated classes in the public schools became popular (Lodge Rogers, et al 221). As children with disabilities were moved from institutions to public schools, permanent segregated classes were formed in public schools to meet their needs, resulting in a change from isolation to segregation (Lodge Rogers, et al 221). We saw in 1958, the first significant federal involvement in the education of students with disabilities, the Mentally Retarded Children Act. Funds were appropriated for the training of teachers for children with mental retardation (Lodge Rogers, et al 223). The special education teachers were students themselves as they were only beginning to learn how to teach those with special needs. With the National Defense Act in the same year, more funds were increased for the education of all children in public schools (Lodge Rogers, et al 223). Still it was not mandatory for school systems to educate disabled children. | |
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