Michelle Obama Visited an English Class in China, Sichuan Province in March and Told Students, ‘There Were Actual Laws in America That Allowed Discrimination Against Black People Like Me’ Michelle Obama, did you learn during your vacation in China that children with disabilities have been discriminated against in education?
China has approximately 85 million people with disabilities according to the United Nations the NY Times reports and experts in the field including professors of special education, human rights officials and lawyers representing the disabled, say the Chinese government, despite some progress, is not doing enough to ensure that people with disabilities have equitable access to education–or really any education at all.
While between 35,000 disabled persons were enrolled in regular higher education institution in China, at the end of 2012 more than 90,000 disabled children in China, had no access to education China Daily reported according to the Ministry of Education.
The Obama’s may want to reconsider citing China as a model of success in education when criticizing the United States on trip abroad.
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