It is often stated that all children need to be taught together, majority students and those of minority status, children of both genders, children who have disabilities and those who do not, and those of all educational levels as long as they are the same age.

a. What can be gained by such educational strategies?

b. What is problematic about such approaches?

c. Why is it likely that the truth, like it is in most instances regardless of the particulars, lies somewhere in the middle?

d. Who should be and who should not be educated together and why do you think so?

e. If you see it possible to separate some of these groups, who, and why should be taught in separate settings?