As is known from the Old Testament, on the fifth day of Creation, God created man - a man and a woman. To own both the bird and the fish and the beasts of the earth. I've always wondered: why? I am not blaspheming, I am trying to understand, although I am an atheist. Anyway, God's experiment called "Humanity" began …
Some statistics …
And now the 21st century. In a few million years, humanity has grown to 7.7 billion. According to some scientific studies, humanity has reached its maximum - the planet Earth simply cannot bear it anymore. So God's experiment is close to a quantitative ceiling. So, maybe it's close to completion? The question is rhetorical … Speech, in fact, about something else.
The paradox of our time: the higher the development of medicine, the more perfect medical technologies, the more sick people, the higher the disability of the population (in Russia, according to the Ministry of Labor for 2019, there are almost 12 million disabled people, i.e., slightly less than 10% of the population).
As soon as science deprived the moment of conception of a person of the “divine mystery” halo, as soon as medicine weakened the processes of natural selection, the number of disabled children began to grow (in Russia there are now almost 700,000 of them, that is, slightly more than 3% of all children).
Inclusion…
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Of course, these tendencies negatively affect social life. In particular, on education. In the 90s, the so-called equalization classes for children with developmental delays and disabilities appeared in schools. Correctional schools were overcrowded. But the number of sick children with developmental and behavioral features increased. So we turned to the idea of inclusion.
In my opinion, the idea of inclusion is due to economic reasons. It is ruinous for any economy, especially not the most powerful Russian one, to support an ever-increasing number of "special" children by creating specialized complexes for them. In addition, the ever-increasing number of "special" people must somehow be integrated into society! The easiest and cheapest way is the existing education system.
Inclusion is detrimental to mainstream schools. "Special" children in the classroom "blur" the learning process, even if they are accompanied by a professional tutor. In the lesson, whatever one may say, only 45 minutes. But if there is a "special" child in the class, then inevitably part of the time is spent on "adaptation techniques." And this means only one thing: less time and attention goes to ordinary children and the process of learning itself.
Perhaps inclusion will benefit the "special," but the same inclusion will lead to "lowering the bar for development" of ordinary children. And here a moral and social dilemma arises: is it fair to sacrifice the interests of the majority to the interests of the minority? A dangerous question. More than once in history, leading to social explosions.
Switchmen …
And in order to disavow dangerous issues, there are two ways: to find a switchman and direct public indignation at him or / and declare not the interests of the majority, but the interests of the minority as the norm.
With switchmen - no problem. The teacher was assigned to blame for the failure of inclusion, and indeed in the deplorable state of education. It is the teacher, such and such, who does not possess sufficient skill to cram in the material prescribed by the program in 45 minutes, to wriggle with an individual approach to learning, adapt “special” children to it, take into account the “pedagogical” wishes of parents, methodologists, psychologists and bosses, form children have motivation to learn, pat the kids on the head and blow them in the ass. That's all you need! Therefore, the "accusatory case" against Russian teachers will continue for a long, long time.
But with the scapegoats, a vicious circle also turns out: the authorities, "not friendly" with the teachers, not protecting them, are doomed to failures. We all come from childhood, which means from school. A humiliated teacher devoid of authority cannot be a sincere supporter of power: at an unconscious level (and sometimes at a completely conscious level), a teacher will form a critical attitude towards power in his pupils. And by no means out of malice and mischief. It's just that the mechanism of the human psyche works like that.
Greta Thunberg …
The appearance of a young and poorly educated Greta Thunberg - a girl “special” - was a civilization shock for me. From the main rostrum of the planet, this "special" sick girl demanded an unprecedented: the zeroing of human civilization. Yes Yes! Under the noble slogan of saving the planet, she demanded to destroy industrial production, many scientific and technological achievements, and recently also cows. For all this pollutes the planet, has already deprived her, Greta, of her childhood and makes her happy future impossible. The most striking thing is that the “special” child considers himself RIGHT to demand from humanity a return to ecologically clean wildness.
And here's the result: the "special" teenager with his half-crazy ideas is no longer just the norm, but a role model with a whole army of followers. A worthy result of inclusive education.
Vicious circle…
A kind of vicious circle is developing: man - civilization - high medical technologies - weakening of the mechanisms of natural selection - the constantly increasing number of "special" children - inclusion - weakening of civilizational bonds - the requirement to return to environmentally friendly sources … the title "Humanity" is nearing completion?