(This is not satire - it's Toby Young)
Toby Young, writing in The Spectator, thinks disabled children should be excluded from schools.
No - I'm not exaggerating - he really does say that wheelchair ramps in schools are an example of 'ghastly, politically correct' inclusiveness.
Sun columnist Toby presumably reckons that educating children who can't walk would mean more 'dumbing down' of the level of education in our schools, so much better to exclude them then.
That Toby Young is a complete wanker, isn't he......
Jul 05, 2012 @ 16:11:29
I do not disagree with him of course for all the wrong reasons, main stream schools can never replace special schools. My old school was so build so I could reach the light switch the tables were lower, the kitchen adapted for me to use in a wheelchair. Then when they went up to the mainstream school we for example only had four rooms, we could not go up stairs because no lifts we were basically segregated within the school.
Then we had one way out a door at the back, with a wheelchair ramp we were already struggling to integrate now we were to worse off, they ended up moving us back to the social school.
Jul 05, 2012 @ 20:06:03
Good points – obviously the whole subject of disability access is complex and needs intelligent, constructive discussion – not the knee-jerk, intolerant level that people like Toby Young are dragging it down to.