Journal: An Integral Educational System.

An article that I read made me reflect on how important is the integration of children with inferior learning capacities in schools. The concept of special education is centered on the necessities that children with learning disabilities have in order to catch up with the rest of the class.
Nowadays the focus of the problem has changed. And luckily, schools answer to the necessity of each children in particular, instead of focusing on the disability itself that some of they may have. In other words, schools put emphasis in what the kid needs from an educational point of view. So, as he or she can integrate within the normal social situations.
From this approach, to talk about learning disabilities implies also to take into account all type of strategies and services that are required by schools in orther to succed in the integrity. And this idea is not new. In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human's rights included also the right that every person has to education. And in the Conference of Education helded in 1990, the garantee of this right was also defended, regardless of the differences that children may have between them. Following this line, 92 governments and 25 international organizations agreed in the year 1994 that every children with learning disabilities should have access to ordinary schools and that they should be integrated with a pedagogical system which centers in the kid himself so as to satisfy his or her particularly necessity.
All this modern view of the problem places emphasis on all the things a child with learning problems would be able to learn if he or she is supported and encouraged to do this.
So, integrity, educationally speaking, doesn't mean to have inside the same classroom all type of students, but to pay attention to the particular needs of each of them. The benefits of an Integral Educatinal System are really wide. Becasue the implementation of inclusive schools is not only the best way to teach and give the example to teenagers that to discriminate is wrong, but also is the way to achieve a society in which different children are not longer left on the margins of Education.