Since the community is where life occurs, education for life after school should begin in the neighborhood school and successively expand to the community at large. It is not necessary to label or separate students in order to provide them with an appropriate education.
All students have special needs, although some are more unique than others.
The primary needs for all students are to learn to live, work, and participate in community life. These goals can be accomplished by educating all children together. When teachers, with varying expertise, work collaboratively using a variety of strategies and technologies they can address the needs of all students. Students and other members of the school community benefit when they work together daily to meet those individual and diverse needs. Achieving educational equity and excellence requires unifying all members of the school community around a vision and set of outcomes for all students.