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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God forbid the "SN" kids contaminate your own special snowflake.  [/quote]

I get this sentiment, but as the parent of a kid with special needs (not at CMI though looking so watching threads with interest), I think there's often a component of this concern that is truly valid, even if some concerns are a bit conflated (I don't think, for example, that being academically challenged and being shortchanged because of the attention to kids with special needs are flip sides to the same coin - there's some area in between where no one is getting shortchanged (or everyone is because the program overall is deficient and it has nothing to do with the kids with IEPs) and yet, some kids aren't academically challenged) or based on a lack of understanding.  It's also telling, I think, to parents of kids with special needs, whether kids without feel like they're getting a good program, because if they're not, it indicates the school isn't staffing appropriately/providing appropriate support for it's kids with special needs - which really means EVERYONE is getting shortchanged, kids with extra needs included (I can say from experience).  It's not quite that simple, but I don't think it's as simple as the above either.

Sorry for the digression.[/quote]

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