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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not OP and am a parent of a child with significant behavior challenges (has gone through homeschool, SESES, and now Bridge)- YES, I hate that my kid was mainstreamed so much and it definitely made him worse, made his classmates against him as they saw his behaviors and stayed away, made my life miserable with the constant calls home due to lack of support. All in all, schooling was terrible until he got into the Bridge program which has provided him almost all day small classes where he doesn't get overstimulated and overwhelmed. He has been able to make friends and is no longer traumatized by school.

Nothing makes me angrier than the push for mainstreaming for him and how much it ruined his love of learning and of school. Not to mention that I had to quit my job to deal with visiting the school multiple times a week and dealing with several calls a week. It's amazing that my relationship withstood those very traumatic elementary school years.

With that said, this is true for my one child. An IEP should be an individualized plan that identifies an appropriate place for each child based on their individual needs. The assumption now is that it is best for ALL kids to have as much mainstreaming as possible, but nothing is best for ALL. [/quote]

+1.  For us it wasn't until we got to RICA that everything turned around.  Inclusion is not for everyone.  Forcing him to try and function in a mainstream classroom was a nightmare.  It was too loud, too chaotic, too many bodies in the room.  It made him hate school and every day he had to go back to that environment.  When the meltdowns happened and the classroom has to be evacuated he was labeled the bad kid.  That did nothing for his self esteem.  We're still trying to put that back together.[/quote]

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