Clustering of special Ed kids in gen Ed
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Anonymous
| At our school they seem to put all the special Ed kids in one Gen Ed class. It’s not fair to the other regular kids who get placed in with that group. The class is usually poorly behaved and the teacher is overwhelmed. This is called clustering and I thought this practice was outdated and frowned upon. Why are elementary schools clustering special Ed kids now in one class instead of spreading them out among 3 different Gen Ed classes? Can parents request for their child not to be put in the special Ed class? |
Anonymous
| Has there been an aide in the classroom? |
Anonymous
| They don’t have enough aides |
Anonymous
| Is there a second teacher or a para educator in the classroom for all or part of the day? |
Anonymous
The special Ed teacher works with that class usually. Either in or pulling out small groups. |
Anonymous
And you know this because…? |
Anonymous
| They do it our school as well. Admission says it is “easier” for special Ed to teachers to plug in |
Anonymous
This, we had to fight to get our kid out. |
Anonymous
| One spec Ed kid can be as much as a distraction and time suck as three. Also the kids are pulled out several hours a week and easy to coordinate with other teachers for coverage or enrichment for the other kids. Does suck for the regular kids in the class but overall has a negative impact on fewer students & teachers. |
Anonymous
| The best years my gen Ed kid has had have been in inclusion classrooms. The unfounded judgment of kids with IEPs is disgusting. |
Anonymous
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My child has severe inattentive ADHD and I remember that his elementary clustered most kids with special needs in one of the 4th grade classes. It was a disaster, because the teacher was new and she could not control the class. My son, who was as quiet as a mouse all year, but highly inattentive, didn't learn a thing and could never complete his work. He failed 4th grade. The teacher kept crying and left teaching at the end of that year. It was pretty awful. I'll always wonder if the Principal didn't like her and set her up to fail...
That was the only year the school tried clustering. |
Anonymous
| My child is one of the sped kids they always put in the same class (aap lvl 4 at a center)with his couple of friends who also have IEPs. Granted they need a bit of extra help—my son is autistic, but I think it’s good for many of the other kids because some of them need help as well ans there is an extra adult in there some of the time. In our case he has always had amazing, seasoned teachers that were good at differentiation. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Happened to us too. It was not until our otherwise happy and easy going DS started to refuse to go to school. Then we started to learn about horrific discipline issues and teacher’s inability to control the classroom or provide sufficient attention to kids with no problems. It took us several months to pull him out. No problems in the new classroom. Principals, how do you decide which kids who have no problems are ok to just throw in the mix? I would have never agreed to have our DS placed in this classroom. This is unfair set-up all around. |
Anonymous
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Do you think your kids might have an anxiety disorder or some other issue?
My child was in an inclusion class last year and there were some children with behavior issues but it was a non-issue. Most of the kids in the class seem to shrug any incidents off and go back to learning. We didn't even know it was an inclusion classroom until another parent mentioned it. I did hear the school tried to put more of the well adjusted, socially accepting and high-performing kids in this inclusion class. The children we know who had issues with their own learning or had anxiety problems were put in the other quieter classes. Suggest you ask for your child to get a 504 plan so they can be put in another class. |