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[quote=Anonymous]I have a very bright child who has been in self contained classes for behavior.

Do whatever you can to say in the regular classes. The academics are NEVER as good in the self contained. Imagine your son in a class of 10 kids, all equally or more disruptive than he is. Ten kids at ten different academic levels, most of them significantly behind. You will be shocked at how poor the academic education can be in those classes. Also, we were told that many children spend a year or two in the self-contained classes and then move back into mainstream once they have learned better skills, but we have never observed a child move into a less restrictive class. Most children seem to stay in the program until middle school and some go further into more restrictive settings (SN only schools etc.)

The problem I think is that there is very little real evidence based skills-teaching. How to develop self-control, how to problem solve, etc. It feels like warehousing kids just to keep them from bothering the regular kids.

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