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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post makes no sense as it started from a McPS topic.  The MCPS budget breakdown can easily be found and folks would see that the Special Education allocation is more than the MS allocation.  Further, self contained classrooms are more expensive because they house less students which means you need more of them, which means more staff and space.  [/quote]

True but they are less expensive then hiring a 1:1 aide for the kids who end up in the self contained classrooms. And they decrease the disruptions in the class with the kid with a 1:1 aide who ends up in the self contained classroom because there is a space for that child to go.

The issue is that we don’t have enough of the appropriate environment to help kids who need that level of help, it is expensive to provide individual aids for all the kids that should be in a different environment, and it is detrimental to everyones ability to learn by not having enough of the appropriate environment.[/quote]

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