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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really discouraging and I’m scared for my daughter.  She’s been in inclusion to this point but she needs a lot of one:one support and gets overwhelmed in large classes.  She really needs friends and a community and I’m afraid she’s going to be stuck in a small group.  She’ll probably find one person in the Bridge program that she’ll connect with - she always finds one person wherever she goes.  But she’s wildly talented in art and theater and if she’s not included in those things she will not have a high school community.[/quote]

(Don’t know your specific daughter’s needs so just throwing an idea out there - you would know best if it’s appropriate or not) -

Would your daughter be ok with a non-Bridge but supported class? Co-taught classes with either a para educator or ideally a special education teacher would be less restrictive. Combine that with a resource class, would your child be able to do the general ed curriculum just with extra support? That way she interacts with non-disabled peers as well as others with disabilities. These classes are supposed to implement universal design so the two teacher format gives all the students more attention.

I have a friend who’s daughter was reassigned from Churchill to Whitman because she was very talented in art but suffered extreme bullying at Churchill. Her disabilities made it difficult for her to respond and the bullying really ate at her self esteem. She was happy at Whitman and is attending a prestigious art school after high school.

In general, parents have raised the issue of bullying to school administrators for years. Churchill has had three principals and two directors in the past five years and nothing has been done for inclusion of students with disabilities and to end bullying. Frankly, the seeds are sown in elementary school. Students with disabilities often have IEP goals so they can learn how to interact appropriately but non-disabled students are not taught how to be kind and respectful to their disabled peers.[/quote]

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