Is sitting alone at school inclusion?

Right now, our daughter attends school three days a week. Of those three days, she spends about half her day outside of the classroom. She reads in the library, in the LART room or her quiet room. She plays with the LART teacher or her CEA.

While in the classroom, she often reads quietly at her desk which is situated in the back corner of the class. Since her classmates are learning at the grade 5/6 level, and she is still trying to learn at the grade 2 level, she isn’t able to participate in the lessons.

Is this inclusion? Is this providing Sellene an education? Or, is it daycare? This is what the Ministry of Education says about teaching diverse learners in their 2008 Framework for Diversity in BC Schools;

The school district is accountable to many mandates. These include;

My daughter is allowed to come to school and read. If she’s well beahved.

And that is not what inclusion means.