The Arlington Times / The Marysville Globe
INCLUSION FROM PAGE 4 us down. But could it be that instead of burdening others and hampering “progress,” people with disabilities are actually the hidden source of our healing, wholeness and liberation? Could these unlikely individuals and the gifts they bring actually be the very cornerstones of real prog-
February 15, 2014
ress? In our Life Skills program at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, we have general education students who work as Instructional Interns with students who have severe developmental disabilities. The popularity of this program is astounding, and I know every student who participates would assure you that they receive as much or even more than they
give. There is a profound truth in this paradox. Inclusion is less about helping people with disabilities than it is about helping us all — helping us become whole, helping us become free, helping us become fully human. But inclusion is not a patch we can simply apply to businessas-usual. Taking inclusion seriously gets to the very heart of our moral universe and changes
everything. Instead of taking current policies, practices and values as the default reality to which everything else must adjust, inclusion suggests that we create business, educational and social environments that take the presence of disability as the natural starting point and build from there. The Developmental Disabilities Act states that “disability is a natural and normal
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part of the human experience.” And the mystery of paradox teaches us that including people with disabilities in all that we do may be the key to discovering what true ability — and possibly even life itself — is all about. Jim Strickland lives with his family in Marysville and teaches at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. He can be reached at livedemocracy@hotmail.com.
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