"Autism is a spectrum and there are many children with autism who ... you wouldn't even know they had autism in the mainstream classroom, through to kids where it's obvious."
She said parents were often alarmed to see their child sitting next to a child with autism in the classroom.
"But the longitudinal data is such that it is advantageous for their own child academically to be alongside that child as well as for the child who has a disability to be sitting in a mainstream classroom," she said.
"There's a lot of research to show that it is beneficial for children with autism to be educated alongside their mainstream peers in terms of the social benefits of understanding difference and accepting that from a very young age.
"There's no evidence that education in anywhere other than a mainstream classroom is going to be good or better for that child."

Like Trump, as rough as Pauline is makes the 'elites' on the abc look very very irrational.

Why are we having this discussion again? It has already been shown on the other thread that Hanson's comments were somewhat ignorant. Yes, the reaction was a little over the top, but Hanson invites some of this herself with a litany of ignorant remarks and an inarticulate manner of speaking which has the unfortunate effect of making everything she says sound that little bit more offensive than what was originally intended.

If they are not promoting sensationalist commentary they feel they are left out.
This mob need to get a life of their own instead inciting propaganda.
Seperate the borderline kids from undiagnosed kids and schools will be empty.
Those comments of Hanson are off the planet just like most of her sayings.
It shows her political immaturity, ill advised or no advice at all

doog Please advise why we should listen to you rather than the teachers
Quote "It shows her political immaturity"
as opposed to, It shows your post immaturity

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/36101055/teachers-back-pauline-hansons-call-to-segregate-autistic-students/#page1

'Pauline's right': Teachers agree autistic students should be segregated from classes

Hanson dropped a bombshell in parliament this week when she said autisitc students were holding other students back in the classroom and needed to be given attention in separate classes.

While the outspoken One Nation senator faced immediate criticism for the statement, Sunrise host David Koch said a lot of teachers had sided with Hanson, claiming there wasn't enough funding to integrate disabled children into mainstream classrooms.

"Whenever Pauline says anything it's like using a sledgehammer, and we all react against her because we all want inclusion in our schools," Koch told education minister Simon Birmingham on Friday morning.

"But a lot of teachers emailed us and said 'Pauline is right, because we don't have the funding and we don't have the teachers aides to be able to integrate kids with disabilities into the classroom, we want more funding'."

More funding push, what a heap of crap. That is not the way to go about more funding.
Hanson needs to pull her nose out of the upper reaches and be realistic. She wants segregation. What next after borderline autistic kids, that disruptive little kid in the corner over there. Do we end up with schools for every class of kids.
She is not a politicians boot lace. Shooting from the hip just like that other bloke. It must be a far right thing.
Bazz reckons that is common sense. God help us.