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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]

The issue is that it has become too difficult to move a child out of the classroom when they are disrupting other kids learning. It is not acceptable that a child is allowed to remain in a classroom where other kids need to be removed for their own safety on a regular basis. It is not acceptable that a child is allowed to remain in a classroom where other kids leaning is ignored because the child is melting down. That environment is not good for the child in question or the other kids in the classroom.

I don't want to see kids warehoused and just pushed through school. I think kids should have the best chance to access an education but I don't think that should come at the cost of interfering with other kids ability to learn as well. And you cannot tell me that the kid who is melting down or damaging property on a regular basis is getting their needs met in that environment. The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. 
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