“…However, mainstreaming and inclusion based on the Western liberal political system aims to provide students with SEN the opportunities for high-quality and appropriate education in the general classrooms of their neighborhood schools (Salend 1998), whereas the primary goal of LRC is to give most children with SEN in China the opportunity to go to school. Therefore, LRC programs are not to provide appropriate education to children with disabilities, but education in any possible forms, and the core values of inclusion such as equity and diversity have never been emphasized in LRC programs due to political and cultural differences (Deng and Poon-McBrayer 2004).…”