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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who said burdened? What an ignorant awful thing to say about kids with disabilities.[/quote]

Burdened, yes, if they have a disproportionate share of behavior issues. What about kids without these issues in su h a  lassroom? Why don't all classes include all categories equally?[/quote]

They can't because they don't have the funding to spread out that many staff positions. But you go ahead and advocate for the funding so they can. [/quote]

+1 This.  It seemed odd to me at first that all these cluster of kids would be in certain classrooms and I don't think I was aware of it until we switched from a less diverse elementary school to a more diverse elementary school.  Once we were in a more diverse school, it was very obvious that they had all the ELL kids in one class, sped in another class, and  IEPs in another class.  My kids were the others in all of these classes and the toughest experience was the one with IEPs.  Just a way more disruptive experience.  It was nice to have a second teacher in the classroom but she could only be assigned for half the day as she had other classes to work with.  My child would come home and tell me about how the teacher would get so frustrated at the chaos that would come from these "boys" acting out; and often the whole class had to deal with the repercussions.
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Usually, if there is clustering, they have extra resources in the classroom to manage it.  These classes can often be the best because there is extra support from aides and specialists.  By contrast, a class with no extra support and rowdy boys can be awful.

IME, they don't usually put all the IEP kids in one class to keep the cluster from overwhelming the classes, so it's usually split between 2 classes.  We usually only have one class with ELL students because of numbers, but I'd expect the same if there were enough ELL students to support more clusters.  [/quote]

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