When the advantages to general-education students are added to those that accrue to special-education students - that they are able to learn and grow in a stimulating environment, that they too come to appreciate the diversity of human ability and experience, that they develop a larger web of friendship, that they learn with same-age peers, that they gain in self-respect - then the arguments for the mainstreaming of moderate needs children become compelling indeed.
This does not, as noted above, mean that every child can be mainstreamed. However, the advantages to both special-education and regular-education children of educating everyone together are so substantial on all sides that every effort should be made to provide as inclusive an education as possible for every student.
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