The lessons of classroom 506

I have about six other things I have to be doing this morning, but I happened upon an article in this Sunday’s NYTimes magazine about an attempt to build an inclusion classroom in a kindergarten in NYC. The article so deftly and evocatively describes my own experiences that I was in tears before it was over. Our son Alex does not live with the same kinds of physical challenges as the youngster the article focuses on, but I’m beginning to think that there is all too much that is the same about living with cerebral palsy, even if specific challenges differ. Anyway — read it, it’s the best description I’ve ever read of what it’s like to parent a young child with physical disabilities and to try and do so in in supportive, learning, ways. I wish there were classrooms like this all over!