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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people seem to think special education is a place you are sent to avoid troubling all the “normal kids”. It is not. Special education is an escalating series of supports designed to minimize the impact of a student’s disability on their ability to access the grade level curriculum. Every student is entitled to this, including those who are disruptive. Removing a student from their least restrictive environment requires lots of documentation and evidence that the school implemented different interventions without success. This includes the support of a 1:1 in the classroom. [/quote]

In real life, if you want your child to have a decent learning environment that is stimulating and free from disruption and even violence, you go to an institution that’s a school and not a hospice. That means either a private school that can kick out the troublemakers, or a public school in a neighborhood that is rich enough that the parents of these troublemakers have enough resources to manage their children’s situation.
If a child is unlucky enough to go to schools with the troublemakers, and the parents can’t afford the previous options, then tough luck. The state only needs to provide FAPE, whatever that means, possibly meeting the lowest bar on the common core standards. If you don’t like it go to private, as if that’s an option for a blue collar family struggling to pay the rent.
We don’t give a crap about that kid’s future because there’s documentation to do. Maybe you can do something if you track the students in different groups based on their academic ability, so that the students that want to learn are put in the same classroom, but nope, that’s not equitable.
The low income kid will do a 13 year sentence to FAPE, in a public school correctional facility. The rich counterparts, will spend the 13 years having access to advanced math, science laboratory, literature and writing classes. If you are a teacher, what class would you rather teach, likely not the zoo, so you’ll do everything you can to find a way out for your own sanity. The ones that are left, manage to do so because they mentally checked out. Meanwhile the education officials will babble about equity, anti racism, learning gap, even though they are the problem, but it’s much easier to do a zoom seminar than fix problems.
OP, make sure you have the best interest of your child in mind. If the teacher is at the point of being fed up and leaving teaching, that’s a sign things are really bad in your child’s classroom. Find a way to take her out.[/quote]

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