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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok. How do you know which teachers have the inclusion classes so you can request that your kid be placed with a different teacher from the start of the year?[/quote]

You can easily tell by who’s in the class. A lot of low kids and behavioral issues. [/quote]

You can also tell by if there's a SPED teacher in the classroom for a lot of the school day (and at back-to-school nights, open houses, etc.).  [/quote]

I realized that my kid was assigned to the SPED class only after the back-to-school night. This was three weeks after the school year started and too late to request classroom change. I also thought that the assignment might not differ much from other classrooms (I really have no issues whatsoever with integration of SPED students), but the school year was a complete disaster compared to everything we experienced before. Whether it was overwhelmed or untrained teacher or a really difficult combination of students, the drama was never ending. At this school, and under the same circumstances, I would strongly recommend avoiding gened assignments to the SPED classroom and complete overhaul of the management of the SPED program. There has to be a reason why some schools are capable of providing thriving integration of SPED and gened students, while others end up with a big mess.[/quote]

Big gross to calling it the "SPED class". Sometimes this forum really shows people for who they really are, and it's ugly. I don't know who you are, but I hope you take some time to reflect on why you feel the need to say things like this.[/quote]

And what is it called? Is SPED not official acronym? Please do explain since I do not understand why SPED term is offensive.[/quote] It is not an acronym.  If it were, it would just be SE.  It is frequently used by people to describe people in a derogatory way.   It becomes offensive because people use it in an offensive manner. Similar to saying "short bus".[/quote] I honestly was not aware of that. So you would say “SE classroom”? Similar to having gened, ESOL and AAP acronyms?[/quote]To me a special ed classroom is a self contained classroom.  People here are talking about Gen Ed, ESOL and AAP classrooms that have students who are also Special Ed. I would not call those Special Ed classrooms.  I might say inclusion (but the way that FCPS does it, it isn't really inclusion either).  By calling them SPED classrooms they are defining the entire class by a minority of the students that are in those classrooms.

The groupings are not silos.  It is more of a Venn diagram.  For example, my DC was in AAP math and Science classes, Gen Ed/Honors Social Studies and History class and in team taught Language Arts and English classes.  DC had an IEP from 2nd through the end of 12th grade.  So, they were Special Ed and AAP and Honors and Gen Ed.  There are even students who are ESOL, Special Ed, AAP and Gen Ed- depending on the services and academics they need.  [/quote]

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