Should special education and general education coincide?

Hey again. I hoped you all enjoyed your weekend. Martin Luther King day just past, another reminder of what the devotion of a cause can bring forth to this world.
It's hard to give your life for something you believe in, but harder to live your life passing every second working for that cause.

That aside, this is about blog post #10 my teacher had us write. Let's see, "Do you believe that schools should combine both special education and general education students in the same classroom?"
 Looks like this relates heavily with what I wrote last time. Now, this question strikes me as unclear and abstruse. Just what exactly did she mean by that? I'm not sure. I'm going to interpret this question as asking us whether schools should put students that qualify for a special education in a class mostly fitted for a general education.


Huh?


I say "mostly fitted" rather than the idealistic half general/half special education that the question hinted at because most likely, the general education students would outnumber the special education students in the average classroom.
We need to look at each individual carefully to determine the best type of education that would yield the most benefit for him or her. Never mind if the student is autistic or mute and deaf, if that student would thrive more in a general education classroom and environment, then that is where that student should go.

So to me, this question is confusing because if we combine the classes, then wouldn't we lose the purpose of special education in the first place? What I do strongly advocate and encourage however, is to lessen the gap between the special education class and the general education class. Perhaps it would be better if instead the student with different needs in learning simply visit and take part of the other classes from time to time.