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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm wondering if there is a correlation between a rise in aggression in DCPS classrooms and DCPS's push to decrease paying for private placements. Many of the private schools are for emotional/behavioral challenges and those students are by far the most expensive to educate b/c they need such a low teacher/student ratio for safety reasons.

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No correlation, at least in the 3-5 range. The kids with SN and behavioral problems so severe they would have required a private placement, would now likely go to self-contained DCPS classrooms.  And the time it takes to place them there is likely less than the time it took to allow the kid to completely fail and be a candidate for private placement, so I'd actually expect less time in the general ed classroom.

We're talking about more garden-variety aggression which can be related to a lot of things -- mild SNs; adjustment to school; poor classroom management; problems at home.  What it's likely FAR more likely related to is the push for universal PK with a terrible understanding of the actual appropriate developmental needs of 3 year olds, coupled with crappy special needs assistance, coupled with teachers stressed by having to prepare kids for high-stakes testing as early as K.  Based on the fact that my child went from aggression so serious as to cause enormous disruption, to literally NO incidents when he was switched to a different setting, my conclusion is that lack of training & resources in DCPS is a huge part of the problem.  [/quote]

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