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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is stranger is why there are so few posts about special education.  The amount of money spent on special education is staggering.  For instance there are about 10 special education specialists at our school and only about 30 children who qualify for special education services.  There are about 160 children who qualify for AAP services and only one AAP specialist.  And classrooms with AAP children tend to have higher class sizes probably negating the cost of that additional specialist.  I don't know why there is such a fuss over AAP when this is not a program that is really using any extra tax dollars.[/quote]

I will start by saying that I have one child in AAP (4th), and one receiving Special Education Services through FCPS (K). The reason there are such a large number of Special Educators related to students receiving services is that each child who is found eligible (as part of Federal Law to ensure the education of children with delays, physical disabilities, etc.) is given a specific amount of hours of service according to their IEP.    I can assure you that the Special Ed. teachers are spread as thin as the schools are able to spread them.

Do I wish the schools had more AART's to allow for more differentiation?, Sure, but I can assure you, if the Special Educators were not working with the children, there would be many parents up in arms that their "gifted" child was not receiving enough of the classroom teacher's time.

Not sure if this came across as I intended, but insinuating that schools are padding their special ed. departments at the expense of the "gifted" does not sit well with me.[/quote]

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