The article raises questions about the discourse of difference, the meaning of inclusion, the impacts of school ‘reform’ on young children with special needs, and the purposes of schools in the USA. The author uses her own story as a mother of a first-grade daughter with special needs chastised for not wanting to juggle scarves to ask, Inclusion for what? To what end? The author highlights the connections between the economic and educational systems in the USA and asks educators to rethink what schools are for. Finally, she calls for all educators concerned with social justice to take on the transformation of society and schools to move them in a more humane direction.
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