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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I'm a "let the whole system burn" teacher.  I don't care what happens to it anymore.  Truly.  3 years and I'm done.  I truly believe there's going to be a whole meltdown, there'll be entire schools that have to close and or class sizes in the 40's or 50's, and eventually special ed will have to be taken over through private insurance.  But again, I don't care anymore.  This system has chewed me up and spit me out.  Let it burn.[/quote]

There's a small group of posters that get hard at the thought of getting children with special needs out of public schools so that they and their kids won't have to see them anymore.

Keep it in your pants. It isn't going to happen.[/quote]

I don’t think this was what the PP was saying, but that said, I do think that such a proposal would pass at this point if it was put to a public vote. Classrooms are just far too disruptive now for any learning to take place, and the majority of people are sick of it. [b]The laws should be changed to only allow kids to stay in mainstream classrooms, special ed diagnoses or not, if they do not interfere with the learning of other students.[/b][/quote]

Sounds good to me.[/quote]

That's the current law, with the caveat that the school needs to try services and supports for the student that could make the mainstream classroom effective and appropriate.

The law isn't the issue here. The issue is that schools don't want to provide services/supports nor do they want to move students to more restrictive placements because both are expensive.[/quote]

The law is absolutely the issue. It's the entire issue, in fact. It's a pie-in-the-sky, aspirational list of demands that has never come with even 1/3 of the federal funding necessary to support it. It was badly funded at the time it passed! And now the number of students it's supposed to cover has quadrupled. It's unworkable. It creates a bottomless pit of entitlements with no funding. On what planet does that make sense? The result has been a decades-long shell game where parents rightfully point to a law that says their child has the right to unlimited supports in whatever they need, at someone else's expense, and the school district faces the reality on the ground and in the gap between the two, filling out endless paperwork, are the dwindling staff. IDEA needs to be radically overhauled and some kind of actual legal limits placed on paperwork and meetings and lawsuits so at least the state of affairs is honest for everyone. Literally no other country does it like we do, and there's a reason why. IDEA is completely disintegrating under the weight of its own contradictions. [/quote]

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