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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The principals and school systems claim it’s the law to allow everyone in the least restrictive environment. So until parents sue to change the law nothing will change. [/quote]

This is what is BS, though.  For many students with severe special needs, especially emotional disabilities, the mainstream classroom is a WAY more restrictive environment than a self-contained classroom.  With all of the overstimulation, with 28 other kids in the room (all potentially setting him off) a mainstream
Placement actively restricts many kids from learning.

It's entirely inappropriate and MORE restrictive.  I don't understand how LRE is defined always to mean "in Gen Ed".[/quote]

Sometimes it’s districts trying to save money, sometimes it’s parents who are in a sort of denial that their kids should be in the mainstream classroom. I’m the PP that posted the canadian article and that was the case there, even though other kids in the boy’s class were experiencing anxiety to the point where there were physical manifestations of said anxiety.

In online discussions though (maybe because parents who acknowledge reality are more likely to seek out support online?) it seems like the normal thing is money. Educating SN students (on average) costs anywhere from 1.5—2x what a NT student costs. And I’m pretty sure that number was calculated using the cost-saving measures (minimum wage part time parapros, mainstreaming so as to not have to hire 1 on 1 specialists, etc). [/quote]

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