Inclusive education is a big bucket of iguana scrotum
Try teaching a class of 30+ children of "mixed ability". Not a celluloid rat's chance in hell of succeeding. The only option is to "pitch to the middle". Thus the lower end still don't understand while the brighter kids aren't being stimulated.

Worst of all is throwing S.E.N. kids in the mix. As they "progress" the gap between their own ability and that of their peers becomes a chasm. This reinforces the difference instead of the intended PC idea of equality, ultimately resulting in the whitling of the special child's confidence. I find that the most soul destroying element of the current system.

Bring back the grammar / secondary school system! (But not the birch.)
Bring back special schools!
And the 11+ exam!
Kick cocking SATs into touch!
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 20 Apr 2008, 15:19, Reply)