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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, but they do cluster SPED and EL students to make delivering services easier. In my experience as a parent and staff the SPED and gifted clusters are often together but sometimes SPED and EL can be clustered together too (or students belong to both groups)[/quote]

My child is tagged as advanced/gifted and has usually been in the class with the co teaching model. I’m guessing it’s easier for teachers to combine those students with the SPED students (and I’m sure there are some who overlap). Benefits are that they rarely need a sub, get a lower teacher-to-student ratio (this is great when there is a large class—my child’s grade is big but but not big enough to add another class, so class size is usually close to the max allowed), etc. [/quote]

You shouldn't assume those students aren't equally gifted. I have one of those. My kid helped teach  class who math and history in middle and high school. The teachers relied upon my kid with disabilities to help. He's a talented teacher even though he's a student like everyone else. The mother of the girl he helped the most is one of the most vile humans I've ever met and complained openly at our back to school night about the sped kids being in her kids class. You sound like her pp.

God people suck. [/quote]

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