AIDS and Education--Why? Why Not?

Autor/in	Emmons, Janet Galbreath
Titel	AIDS and Education--Why? Why Not?
Quelle	(1989), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Civil Rights; Communicable Diseases; Disability Discrimination; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Handicap Identification; Mainstreaming; School Law; Student Rights + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Contagious disease; Contagious diseases; Communicable disease; Infektionskrankheit; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht
Abstract	Every child who enters the doors of the nation's school system deserves an education, including children with AIDS. Parents of AIDS-free children fear that the AIDS-infected child in the classroom threatens the health and safety of the general school community. But according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, casual contact with AIDS patients does not place others at risk of contracting the illness. A child with AIDS is considered handicapped and thus is entitled to all the legal rights that a handicapped student possesses. These rights include the right to receive a free and appropriate education with the same variety of programs and services that children without handicaps enjoy and placement in the least restrictive environment with nonhandicapped children (mainstreamed) whenever possible. According to the legal community, educators are in direct conflict with the nation's laws if they refuse to educate the AIDS afflicted child; therefore, teachers must comply. If educating, learning, and teaching the whole child--all children--is an educator's goal, then let educators take the initiative and accept the challenge. (14 references) (KM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01