Is Inclusion working for everyone?

An Inclusive education is where all the students in a school are part of the school community and not broken up into the "normal" mainstream kids and the students with special needs.  This means that students with disabilities need to be into general education classrooms.  By allowing students to be in the same classroom it gives them the feeling of belonging with everyone.  Allowing the students to join general education classroom ensures that the students get a fair education and learn what exactly what other students are learning with help from their aides. Allowing students to join regular classrooms is great, but not everyone thinks so. Inclusion classrooms are mostly for students with IEP's but also include students who need even more help than just an IEP.
There are some issues to having students with disabilities joining general education classrooms.  One reason is some students need extra help from their aides or have a hard time sitting or a while and tend to disrupt class.  I remember a math class in high school where we had a special needs student that would make noises during class and would disrupt class. It didn't bug everyone but it did bug someone people and by the end of the year became an issue when we had to take finals.  The aide the boy had took all his notes and when he couldn't handle sitting anymore she would take him for a walk. 
Students with special needs sometimes need an aide and not every school can get an aide for every child to follow them to their classes.  They also don't get the same support in a regular classroom they could receive in a contained classroom with other students that had disabilities.  In a small classroom the students would be able to receive extra support like reviews, repetition, and instruction at a slower pace. In all classrooms there's some type of competition going on but when a student who already struggles in class competition is even bigger.   Asking questions becomes harder for these students because they are afraid to be jugged.
Is co-teaching for every teacher?  Teachers that have been teaching for many years alone may not be happy with having a second teacher in the room and changing what they do.  New teachers may be able to co-teach better because they haven't had the many years of teaching alone.
I feel that all student should have a fair chance in a regular classroom and that all schools should have inclusion classrooms but at the same time they should have a classroom for special needs students to be able to retreat to.  They should allow for maybe the last class of the day to be where these students go back to this room and talk about their day and are able to ask questions and get help.
Inclusion classrooms may be working and may not be working at the same time.  There isn't an actual answer.  Some students like it and some don't.  There are many things to look to just like the zero tolerance policy we talked about this week, inclusion classrooms may need to be worked on to make it all even better!


http://www.schoolpsychologistfiles.com/2008/11/the-benefits-of-an-inclusion-classroom.html
http://www.slideshare.net/DeeARoss/cons-of-inclusion-education