Imagine a typical high school classroom; a teacher is explaining an Algebra lesson. Suddenly, a deafening screech is heard from the back of the classroom and a book is thrown towards the blackboard. Your first instinct would be to turn around and see what all the commotion was about; however, it's just Toby, the special needs child. This class encounters shots like this from Toby almost every day. The integration of special education students is the primary reason for these disruptions. Some of these pupils spend up to 80% of their day in a standard classroom. The inclusion of students with disabilities in a mainstream classroom has become a growing trend in many public schools across America in recent decades. For this reason, mainstreaming affects students, their peers and their educators. ("Special Education"). The vast majority of people believe that the inclusion of children with disabilities is one of the most effective ways to improve the social and educational skills of these students with special needs. However, this is not an ideal situation that most of these children have to deal with on a daily basis. Placing a child with special needs in a standard classroom actually causes them to learn less. For example, they do not receive the necessary attention and lessons can be rushed through for them. For this reason the lesson demonstrated could not be understood by the student. In other words, a teacher should recreate and reshape lesson plans around one or two individual students. The regular school setting simply allows these children to escape the hands of teachers, moving from educator to educator in an attempt to break out of the system as... middle of paper... would I rather be successful in a specialized school environment? Well, the choice is up to you parents; now tell me, what would you decide? ("Special Education"). Works Cited Reynolds, Tammy and Dombeck, Mark. "The choice of educational context: the pros and cons of the integration of children with intellectual disabilities". SevenCounties Services, Inc. Web. February 23, 2012.http://www.2facts.com/icof_story.aspx?PIN=i1200490%term=mainstreaming.Np. “Special education”. Issues and controversies on file: n. page Problems and controversies. Facts On File News Services, September 7, 2007. Web. February 23, 2012. http://www.2facts.com/article/i1200490. “Teachers Under Fire.” American decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. vol. 9: 1980-1989. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Press. March 5. 2012.