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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No child left behind REALLY screwed so many kids. It hasn't helped kids avoid being academically left behind. And "least restrictive environment" isn't helpful when the kid is verbally disruptive.  [/quote]
+1 Very rarely will non-teachers admit this. But NCLB/IDEA/FAPE ruined public schools in the US. The Federal Government and Congress like the publicity of “helping everyone” but provided no funding. So then all children suffer.[/quote]

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IDEA and FAPE are nice concepts but until the feds actually fund these programs as they need to be they are breaking schools. [/quote]

This. It could work with proper funding. There is not proper funding and it's not working. There's at least one student at our ES who is causing their classroom to be evacuated on a weekly basis, sometimes twice a week. The kids are out of the room for about 20 minutes each time it happens. That's 100 minutes of missed instruction per month for every kid in the class, including the other non disruptive classmates who have IEPs and are also legally entitled to FAPE.[/quote]

What do you mean by causing the classroom to be evacuated? Is the student hurting other people? If so you need to get involved. Others have posted re how to get results - see posts up thread.[/quote]

PP. I'm a teacher at a different school and I've heard about it plenty from teachers at my kid's school. Teachers never ever ever discuss these matters in writing or via text, but we definitely talk behind closed doors or over the phone. No students have been harmed but at least one staff member has had to go to urgent care a few times. The student in question is going nowhere. Admin reportedly has never set foot in the classroom but claims he's just socially immature.[/quote]

How can these admins get away with never visiting classrooms? [/quote]

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