Sean's Story questions

Helena George

question 2 In your opinion what is one of the biggest benefits of inclusion? Include on detail from the video to support your answer.
 One of the biggest benefits of inclusion is that young children can gain an understanding of people with a disability. At the end of the video the reporter asks the children what they think of Sean and they answered that they know him now and that he is nice and "not someone to just laugh at" and I think that is very important to get the preconceived notions that people with disabilities are something to laugh at or think of as different starting with young children so they don't grow up thinking it's okay to make fun of someone who is different.

question 5 Compare Sean and Bobby's mothers' approach to supporting their sons' education.
Sean and Bobby's mothers had different approaches to supporting their son's. Sean's mother fought hard and believed he could learn anything a child without disabilities could learn even if it took longer and she never lowered her expectations of her son. Bobby's mother seemed to give up on the idea that he could keep up with the curriculum in schools who didn't cater specifically to children with special education needs. She believed the expectations were too high and was afraid of him falling behind and that his self esteem would suffer. It seemed, in some parts of the video, that she lowered her expectations of her son but that's what she felt was best for him, to be in an environment with other kids with disabilities. Which I can't really blame her for I suppose but I don't have kids and have never been in such a situation so it's hard for me to gauge her actions on whether they were right or wrong. They both wanted what they felt was the best education for their sons, they just went about it differently.