Question

Which of the following is an example of mainstreaming?

Answer 1

Answer:

C. At Cobb Middle School, students with learning disabilities are in  the same classrooms as other students.

Explanation:

A. is not the right answer. While this is an example of using more mainstream and new methods of learning, it is not what mainstreaming means in the context of education.

B. is not the right answer. Mainstreaming doesn’t have anything to do with providing lunch.

C. is the right answer. In the context of education, mainstreaming means that children with special needs attend the same classes as the general population in order to defeat stigma put on these children, and to help them develop social and life skills. This way, the children are not separated and kept in the bubble which is different from the "outside world” but are prepared to be fully functioning when leaving school. Children with special needs that attend general classes may have aid from the worker educated to help them, but they still work in the same classrooms as the rest of the students. If children with a learning disability are attending classes as everyone else without being separated, this means they are being mainstreamed and that this is the example of mainstreaming.

D. is not the correct answer. This is not what mainstreaming means, as it has nothing to do with who eats lunch with whom.