Federal statutes have been mandated to ensure that students with disabilities are not removed from their home schools or classrooms unless their educational needs could not be meet in those places with supports. In school, all children learn more than just academics. They learn how to relate to others, they learn values, they learn how they are seen, and they learn to grow. Children learn by example. They learn from their chronological same-age peers.
Segregated settings prepare students to function in segregated settings.
In an inclusive model, students with disabilities, no matter how severe, are taught in the regular education classroom with their age and grade peers with support services provided within that classroom.