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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And what about the other kids in the class? So the one child with disabilities learns more if he's in that class, but he is so disruptive and difficult that no one else can learn and the teacher can't teach. I've been in classes where one "disabled" kid terrorized an entire class, including the teacher, physically assaulting people (including the teacher!), and making the entire year horrible for everyone. Why is that kid's right to be in the best environment trump everyone else's right to a safe, effective education? I know that's not all special ed kids and not even the majority, but it only takes one of those kids to ruin a class. [b]The question, do kids without an IEP or identification as AAP have any rights to a decent education at all? It seems fcps thinks not[/b]. [/quote]

This.  It doesn't happen every year and in every class.  But, it does happen and when it does it can be catastrophic for the rest of the kids in the class.

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+1,000,000 to both PPs, and especially to the bolded.  [/quote]

Our kids in "Gen Ed" got a great education in FCPS, took multiple APs with former AAP kids, and were admitted to fine schools.

It sounds like you likely have an agenda that has more to do with real estate than K-12 education.[/quote]

Not the poster you were responding to, but be glad your kids made it through just in time. It's just the last few years of AAP overreach combined with budget cuts and higher esol that are now threatening elementary schools.  Our ES doubled in size over seven years and has gone down the tubes. The school also took in a lot more special ed students without increasing staff- especially counselors, psychologists, social workers etc. it sounds like you're the one with the agenda now that your kids were admitted to their "fine" schools and done with FCPS..[/quote]

Precisely.[/quote]

PP - sounds like our elementary where poverty more than doubled to over 50% in the same time frame. This is what partly prompted us to seriously consider AAP. You should get the same education wherever you are in the county, but you don't. We have friends in other parts of the county and it's like they're in another world.[/quote]

Although there are no estimates for Fairfax County, undocumented immigrants are estimated to be 20 to 29 percent of Virginia’s foreign-born population. Approximately 80 percent of the
nation’s undocumented immigrants come from Mexico and other Latin American countries. Among the nation’s undocumented adult immigrants age 18 and older, an estimated 41 percent are women. There also are a substantial number of children who are undocumented immigrants. Children comprise an estimated 17 percent of the nation’s undocumented immigrant population, and it is estimated that for every undocumented child there are an additional two children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents.[/quote]

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