ABSTRACT
Special education used to maintain a somewhat uneasy relationship with the rest of the educational world. For many years, for reasons which this section mentions, special education was seen as separate education, education in the separate campus of the special school. Since special schools were unknown territory, never visited by the great majority of teachers and administrators, it was assumed that education there was somehow different. Exactly how it was different was never really explained, and while these educational areas remained remote, the rest of the educational world remained ignorant.
