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Item #3 (Advanced Level)

There’s Room for Everyone

When you ask the kindergarten teachers here what’s special about their

kindergarten they say that it’s like a building – each one is different, there
are religious and secular (people), black-haired and blonds, and there are

also children with special needs. Usually in the education system there are

two options: either special education, or singular integration where one
child with special needs is integrated into a regular kindergarten, but here

everyone lives together. There are eight children here with complex

physiological problems, some of them have rare syndromes, none of them
speak, they’re surrounded by devices. But all of this doesn’t bother the

dozens of other children to accept them exactly the way they are. “The

kids are naturally curious kids, they always ask questions, “Why can’t a
six year old speak?”, I tell them that these children were born this way, and

they have a lot of other ways to communicate, even if they don’t have the

regular language we’re used to communicating with.” Everyone doesn’t
always play together here, there are also completely separate activities, but

what they learned here in their common time, they’ll probably take with

them for their whole lives.

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