Posted: Friday, May 6, 2005 1:00 am | Updated: 11:41 am, Wed Nov 25, 2009. By Carl Hamilton
“My boy has Down's Syndrome. He can't speak. He can't read. He can't write.
"He can't even go to the bathroom (unassisted)," Kelly Bender of North East said, referring to her fourth-grade son, Lee Rodden, 9.
"And yet," she continued, "he's going to sit with kids in a (regular) classroom and learn right along with them?
"It's not going to work. How can he survive in a regular classroom?"
When should a special ed student be taught in a general classroom?
Whenever possible, is the answer given by Cecil County Public Schools administrators.
But parents who attended a public meeting Tuesday night at North East High School believe the county school system's "inclusion program" n putting challenged students in general classes n is too liberal and ineffective.
According to Kelly Bender, school officials want to transfer her son, Lee, from Perryville Elementary School, where he's taught with six to eight other special ed students, to North East Elementary School, where he will take part in the inclusion program.cahamilton@cecilwhig.com
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