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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will chime in to say that teachers are also not happy. I am a specials teacher in a school of about 500, and across all of my classes I have about 75 kids with IEPs or 504s requiring accommodations of some kind. For an art teacher I spend a lot of time signing and promising to abide by plans dozens of pages long that I know won’t be possible. Five classes a day, each one with 25 kids, 5 of which require some combination of reminders, repetition, visual cues, standing option, fidgets, passes to take a break, noise canceling headphones, preferential seating, and calm down corners. Abiding by just a couple of these plans would be a full-time job, but I also have 20 other kids in the class and a lesson to teach. The system is not working where I am.[/quote]

It isn't working anywhere.  My perspective is that the federal government really needs to step up dramatically in terms of funding special ed.  We are at the point where the number of sped staff needs to triple or quadruple.  In order to get people to take those jobs, salaries probably need to double or triple, too.  But one gen ed teacher or general specials teacher cannot implement all the required supports.  It's not possible.[/quote]

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