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While I agree that the parental responsibility must be there, class sizes of 15 is still idea.  I've had inclusion classes of over 30 kids, with about half with IEPs. It was reprehensible.  Nothing was accomplished, and everyone just turned a blind eye despite the complaints from staff members in the same boat.

I'm not sure if your children have ever been in a "regular" setting.  But private schools (I'm a product, and one child started off in a parochial.) can determine who stays and who goes.  So the kids either learn to behave or they're out.  This isn't the case in public, especially with the non-existent disciplinary measures.  So yes, 30 kids in private  may be fine, but I'll take 15 difficult kids in a public setting over 30 any old day. Furthermore, privates are excluded from the mounds of paperwork, ridiculous meetings and state testing.  A teacher has the time to plan.

To be fair, PP, I don't think you can speak to the "masses" with a private school child and a magnet student.  [b]Magnets take the cream of the crop.  Behaviors are not usually an issue[/b].[/quote]

No? As I've said before, the elementary magnet program is the Center Program for the Highly Gifted, not the Center Program for the Highly Well-Behaved.[/quote]

Honey, and I write this as respectfully as possible, unless you're in the system, as I am, you have no right to chime in.  Magnet kids are MUCH easier to handle than some gang members who are only in school to recruit members.[/quote]

Sweetie, I'm in the system too.[/quote]

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