People, with some justification, are asking us to consider set- asides. People we lived beside for generations will no longer talk to us. We didn't choose the role. While the venom facing the Maynard family is rare, the conflict that spawned it is not. The magazine goes on to explain that while federal and state laws mandate certain educational requirements for special-needs students, funding to cover the costs of the education is not forthcoming.
States have special-education laws, also funded at inadequate levels.
TIME notes that under inclusion, special-education funds follow the child. Public school teachers must be trained to work with special- education children and additional staff must be hired. According to the magazine, inclusion works best at the elementary-school level, and rarely at the secondary level. The kids are often miserable because they have no friends except their tutors. I think parents are beginning to realize this.