Are class assignments random for students in elementary school?

[Anonymous]

At DC’s school they put all students with behavior issue (3-4 kids) to one single class and pair that single class with 3-4 assisting teachers to help home room teacher.

[Anonymous]

My kid's school definitely has a special ed class. I think it's nice that my child is exposed to kids that are different from her. These kids all have IAs so it also means extra hands in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am pretty sure my child is in the class with the sped students. Her class is the only class with a FT sped teacher.

Last year, there was one class that seemed to have all the ESOL kids.

Curious about the grade level?

FWIW, DD was in a class with sped students. I think it was a good experience for her. It was second grade and it was team taught. She really liked the sped teacher, too. I think after that year, they changed the model--but this worked well at that point.

However, I think it is a serious mistake to put all the ESOL kids in one class. I was a teacher and when I had onesies and twosies of ESOL kids, their English improved quickly. But, when I had six or seven, they hung with each other exclusively on the playground, etc, and English developed more slowly.

I didn’t have that problem in ESOL kindergarten but I can see it happening in older grades.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school, but often there will be inclusion classrooms and esol classrooms.