Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome by: Christopher Kliewer

Premise:

• Segregation
• Schools
• Unfairness
• Down syndrome
• Individuality
• Learning
• Democracy
• Ability

Author’s Argument:
Kliewer’s argument is that Down syndrome kids learn differently from other children and they are not the same as other children. The author also tells how children with Down syndrome are treated differently from children who do not have Down syndrome.
Kliewer says that students with Down syndrome should not be separated form other students.

Evidence:

1. “It's not like they come here to be labeled, or to believe the label. We're all here, kids, teachers, parents, whoever, it's all about us working together"
2. “Success in life requires an ability to form relationships with other who make up the web of community”
3. “I don’t tend to see Down syndrome as something. If you look at those three kids running around then room, they’re incredibly different from each other.”
   

Comments:
I did not like this article; this was kind of personal for me. I hated how they told us how children with Down syndrome are treated different from other students. My cousin is not Down syndrome but she is mentally retarded, and when they talk about these children it hurts me hearing about how these children have to live.
I think all children are different no matter if you have Down syndrome or not but all children should also be treated equally. If the community treated all people equally we would not have this problem.