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Full Inclusion? What happens when a second grade teacher with a classroom full of 30 or 35 students finds out that several of her new students have severe behavioral disabilities? The teacher has had no special education training in working with children with disabilities, and the principal tells her that getting an aid or classroom help is definitely out of the question-the school budget simply can not afford it. The teacher's main source of help is the …

…discouraged, a situation that is not healthy for teachers and may accrue negative results for their students. Successful full inclusion appears to carry with it a commitment of extra resources during a time when resources are becoming scarcer. Unless legislators, administrators, parents and tax payers share a commitment to provide these extra resources, it is likely that many full inclusion experiences will result in regular teachers feeling, with cause, that they are being "dumped on."