The society tends to accept the standard normal people who are able to relate to the rest of the people easily. Unfortunately, some might not be lucky enough to fall under the ‘normal people' bracket and end up having a tough time trying to fit into the society. During birth, there may be cases of genetic disorders that make one have weird behaviors and emotions that may make them not be accepted to the society thus be segregated to a reality of their own.
Georgia’s Segregation of Students with Disabilities
Schools for people with disabilities in the state of Georgia have been on the spotlight for illegally segregating this disadvantaged children to an extent of accommodating them in ancient schools used by the black people during the racial segregation era.
Georgia’s Rationale for this Practice
There are approximate 5000 children in this segregated schools. Most of them have behavioral and emotional disabilities that have been said to be difficult to teach and contain in the public schools.
Damaging Segregation
Since this segregation schools are illegal, the children in this schools do not have the opportunity to enjoy what other ‘normal' children in the mainstream educational schools are enjoying. They are disadvantaged to access facilities such as science laboratories, art classes and gymnasium. In some other instances, they even have their own restrooms, different lunch periods, and separate entries to a building from the other children.
A sad case is where a thirteen-year-old who has been segregated several times and ended up committing suicide.
How can Georgia Address this Issue?
The most effective sort out ways to deal with this issue is to close this schools so that they won't host any more people. Also, coming up with a program that will see these children being re-absorbed into mainstream schools.
Conclusion.
The state of Georgia needs to benchmark what is done in other states. Other states have enrolled special education in schools for this disadvantaged kids instead of segregating them. This will see that they are still incorporated into the mainstream educational system.
References
Hensel, W. F. (2010). Vouchers for students with disabilities: The future of special education. JL " Educ., 39, 291.
Laws, L. N. (2008). A study to determine the academic progression between students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers on Georgia's statewide Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (Doctoral dissertation, Capella University).
Landers, E., Courtade, G., " Ryndak, D. (2012). Including students with severe disabilities in school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports: Perceptions of state coordinators. Research and Practice for Persons With Severe Disabilities, 37(1), 1-8.
