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[quote=Anonymous]OP, another MERLD mom here. My DC has been in both inclusion and self-contained. We've had amazing inclusion experiences, and true train wrecks. We've had wonderful self-contained classrooms where huge progress was made, and a year where the teacher was fired at the end because her class was such a mess instructionally and behaviorally.

Based on just my experience, and given that it's preschool, I would try really hard to figure out where the instruction and early intervention will be the best. Which classrooms are multi-sensory or multi-modal (different teachers use different words)? Which provide lots of visual models and repetition? Which are language-rich? In the gen ed setting, which teachers are invested in kids with learning differences--and want to include? (I had an administrator once tell me that a certain teacher didn't like to do inclusion. It's illegal, but thanks for your honesty.)

You probably need to dig into the special needs community immediately around you through more localized listservs and find out what is really happening at your neighborhood school(s).

Best of luck. Again, just my experience. I am a HUGE proponent of inclusion, when done right. But sadly there are still a lot of classrooms in the D.C. area that simply are not. There are also lots of excellent self-contained models in the area, and some horrid ones too.

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