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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI you are all coming off as both ignorant and rude, which may not be your intention so I will try and answer in as neutral of a way as possible.

Clustering, which is different than TRACKING (an outdated practice), is done so that the students that work with a Special Ed teacher are all in the same place. This is for logistical reasons. If class A and B from the same grade are running at the same time, and one SPED teacher is assigned to that grade, they can’t be in two places as once.

As for how principals decide, I have no answer to you. There’s no principals order on which gen Ed students typically go into the clustered class. At my school, we try to identify the students we know may need extra support but are not identified and put them in that same classroom, since the pace is typically slower and two teachers make for a more reasonable teacher : student ratio.[/quote]

We ended up putting a sped Ed group with a lot of pull out in one class and one sped group with no pull out in another. This is best for the teacher and IA. We then placed gen Ed kids and kept in mind other behaviors, who shouldn’t be with who and kids who will do great with any special Ed kids. 
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