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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  We have worked a lot with DC and there has been much improvement since kinder.  But this is FIRST grade and immaturity should not come as a surprise.  There have been other children recently being pushed into special ed as part of what seems like a wave at the school.  But my intention was to ask a much broader question.  Allow me to rephrase:

[b]Do you think a school should be able to use special education as a tool to segregate the well behaved from the ill behaved if there is no danger of physical harm?  Yes I understand the argument of affecting others. But special education was never intended as a tool to "help others".  Perhaps something else should be in place for that like a BMP? Thanks.[/b][/quote]

I disagree with the premise of your question. You're only seeing an IEP as a means to separate students when that is, in fact, not the case at all. You're leaving out a HUGE part of an IEP: Least restrictive environment. The least restrictive environment is the general education classroom in the neighborhood school with no services or accommodations. Every attempt has to be made to maintain that as closely as possible. Your child can receive special education services whereby a special education staff member comes to the general education classroom to provide services and accommodations. Or it could be that your child is pulled out of the general education class for short periods of scheduled time for specialized instruction. All of these decisions are made to ensure the student receives the services he/she needs.

A student who is engaging in disruptive behavior may need another staff member in the room to give prompts. Or the child may be pulled out for 30 minutes each morning to learn some coping skills that are then applied back in the general education classroom. Or maybe the team realizes that the behaviors occur primarily during reading, so the child receives reading instruction in a small group outside the gen ed classroom, but spends the rest of the day in the gen ed classroom.

Again, I think you're coming at this with limited information. The premise of special education is to provide specialized instruction, accommodations and if need be, modifications to the general ed curriculum. Goals are set based on performance data and standards the studentsis expected to meet. And the setting where all of these things happen is carefully considered and must be justified. [/quote]

If this child needs more support and there is not a paraprofessional to do basically 1-1 or 1-2 kids then that would not be the least restrictive as this child isn't functioning well in this environment and needs more.  OP needs to get a private evaluation and counseling for the family/child and behavioral supports at home for a start.  What ever everyone is doing isn't working.[/quote]

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