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Advantages and Disadvantages. Our experiment with self-contained classrooms was successful in some respects unsuccessful in others. There were two major benefits in grouping the disruptive and severely deficient children. First, they did not inhibit the education of others, as would have been the case had they been mainstreamed. Second, they were able to receive large daily blocks of time for intensive individual and small-group assistance.
The biggest disadvantages were that children in this group were rarely able to observe positive behavior role models, and that discussions of subject matter were virtually nonexistent because of their severe academic and language deficits.
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special education teacher
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