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[quote=Anonymous]DS (Autism and ADHD) is 13 and is in 7th grade at an FCPS middle school.  his biggest academic deficit is writing and reading comprehensive.  He has no behavior issues in school 
During our bridge meeting the school strongly recommended self-contained for history and english and team taught for math and science.  Since school started, he has been complaining about disruptive behavior of other students in the self-contained class. He mentioned that there is one disruptive student in math but made it seem like that one student did not impact the learning of the entire class.  However, each day he has history he comes home and tells me how much he hates it because of 4 students who are always hyperactive and not listening.  There are 12 students in his history class. Our son says that he is barely learning anything and is spending most of the class doing independent work because the teacher is so focused on controlling the disruptions.  He loves math and science and lights up when he talks about what occurred in those classrooms.

We brought this up with the school this week in a meeting.  The teacher downplayed the situation stating that there is only one disruptive child who is having adjustment issues because he came from an autism program. She made it seem like the child is under control now. They discouraged us from moving DS into a team-taught class because they were concerned that he would not be able to keep up with the pace.  
The principal agreed to do a classroom observation and provide us her feedback.

We are new to middle school special education.  To all the parents out there is disruptive behavior in these classrooms a way of life and we just have to accept that they will be par for the course? 
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