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[quote=Anonymous]My experience working with special ed kids, accompanying them to classes such as art, PE, music, etc., is that the teachers of those classes are quite often clueless.  Some are clueless but nice, good-hearted people who do their best.  Others are clueless and assholes as well.  Often they don't read the IEPs that are supplied to them ("I like to form my own opinion of the student") and don't listen when told by special ed staff how they might interact with specific students. Some are so stupid they don't even try to hide their opinion that we are "babying" students, when we aren't.

It's somewhat understandable when the teacher is young or new or inexperienced.  But I've seen this dynamic with teachers who have been in the job 20 years.  I'd say PE teachers are the worst (just in my experience, of course) but have also seen it in art teachers, etc.  As support staff I do my best to run interference and do damage control.  I can report incidents or observations to my supervisor but chances are they won't do anything about it.

So I obviously can't say this is the case at every school, but I am saying it's typical of what I've seen over many years at a very highly regarded elementary school.[/quote]

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