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====THE ADVANTAGE IS EXCLUSION:====

====Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, special education enabled de facto
segregation of disabled students. This shapes how disabled students see the world because it
telegraphs that they don't belong and validates this exclusion to other students, perpetuating Ableism
write large. Inclusive design is possible and improves educational outcomes====

**Swenson 17**, (deputy assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services in the
Obama administration as well as the former commissioner for developmental disabilities in the Clinton
administration. She currently serves as president-elect of Inclusion International, Taking Intellectual
Disability Seriously Shows Us that Education Is a Human Right, American Bar Association Human Rights
Magazine Vol. 42 No. 4, https://www.americanbar.org/publications/crsj-human-rights-magazine/vol—
42/vol-42-no-4/taking-intellectual-disability-seriously-shows-us-that-education.html)

The Challenge: Building and Supporting Inclusive Schools

In this country, even the

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. Human rights are rights we recognize in others because we are human.

====Disabled students are imprisoned in padded rooms—-IEPs are pull-out programs that entrench
segregation====

**Long 14**, (educator and author of The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness, from
Hudson Street Press, Don't Segregate My Special Needs Child, time.com/3257982/special-needs-
children-education/)

Have I lost you with the acronyms yet? Even if you earned your Ph

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, more often than not, we are condemning these children to prison.

====Current remedies fail because both exclusion and inclusion pivot around comfort of "regular
students" and pathologize disability. This particularly causes exclusion and segregation of people of
color and non-cis-men. Universal Design Learning, or UDL, enables better educational outcomes and
radically challenges ableo-normalcy====

**Wilson 17**, (Associate Professor for the Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences at The University of
Tulsa, Reimagining Disability and Inclusive Education Through Universal Design for Learning, Disability
Studies Quarterly - Vol 37, No 2, dsq-sds.org/article/view/5417/4650)

When I shared this story during a roundtable discussion at an academic conference a few

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tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

====UDL revolutionizes education and solves beyond the classroom—-it decenters hegemonic norms
which enables new forms of knowledge that contest normality====

**Wilson 17**, (Associate Professor for the Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences at The University of
Tulsa, Reimagining Disability and Inclusive Education Through Universal Design for Learning, Disability
Studies Quarterly - Vol 37, No 2, dsq-sds.org/article/view/5417/4650)

Again, Mitchell, Snyder, and Ware remind us of the importance of curricular

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"right" way to see, hear, think, and know.

====Our impact is prior—-disabled people are not counted as human—-utilitarian calculus is a falsely
neutral conditioning that makes eugenics, war, and suffering inevitable. You must accept vulnerability
for the sake of justice because everybody always exists on the brink of extermination because of the
precariousness of "humanity" ====

**Taylor 13**, (Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Colgate University, "Lives Worth
Living:" Theorizing Moral Status and Expressions of Human Life, dsq-sds.org/article/view/3875/3404)

As public debates continue over what counts as a life worth living, a life

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normative erasure and potentially enables the recognition of new forms of human expression.
====Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should rule that the right to education
requires that Universal Design Learning be integrated into the curriculum of elementary and secondary
education in the United States.====

====Only a judicially protected right to education prevents segregation and mistreatment of disabled
students—-the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of expanded IDEA protections, but, absent a clear
right, they will be poorly applied and enshrine segregation====

**Swenson 17**, (deputy assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services in the
Obama administration as well as the former commissioner for developmental disabilities in the Clinton
administration. She currently serves as president-elect of Inclusion International, Taking Intellectual
Disability Seriously Shows Us that Education Is a Human Right, American Bar Association Human Rights
Magazine Vol. 42 No. 4, https://www.americanbar.org/publications/crsj-human-rights-magazine/vol—
42/vol-42-no-4/taking-

intellectual-disability-seriously-shows-us-that-education.html

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new tools to use at the state, local, and personal levels.

====National policy is key—-ad hoc application ensures narrow interpretation of protections and
continued segregation====

**HRW 15**, (Human Rights Watch, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SHARES INFO ON RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
WITH DISABILITIES TO EDUCATION WITH UN COMMITTEE, www.usicd.org/index.cfm/news_human-
rights-watch-shares-info-on-rights-of-children-with-disabilities-to-education-with-un-committee)

2. Failures to implement inclusive education in policy and practice Human Rights Watch has

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or technical training traditionally offered as an exit from special schools.~~[34~~]

====The Fed is key—-only national action guarantees civil rights—-state protections get whittled down
by litigation and unstable funding====

**Swenson 17**, (deputy assistant secretary for special education and rehabilitative services in the
Obama administration as well as the former commissioner for developmental disabilities in the Clinton
administration. She currently serves as president-elect of Inclusion International, Taking Intellectual
Disability Seriously Shows Us that Education Is a Human Right, American Bar Association Human Rights
Magazine Vol. 42 No. 4, https://www.americanbar.org/publications/crsj-human-rights-magazine/vol—
42/vol-42-no-4/taking-intellectual-disability-seriously-shows-us-that-education.html)

The Meaning: The IDEA, Civil Rights, and Human Rights It should be

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do not believe there is anyone eagerly awaiting a special education block grant.

====Utilitarianism is self-defeating—-it justifies ever greater evils that culminate in nuclear war====

**Holt 95**, Jim Holt, commentator for the BBC, writes frequently about politics and philosophy,
August 5, 1995, New York Times, "Morality, Reduced To Arithmetic," p. Lexis

Can the deliberate massacre of innocent people ever be condoned? The atomic bombs

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us to the idea of reducing innocents to instruments and morality to arithmetic.