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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids receiving services should/will go back first.

Regular kids? Who the hell knows?[/quote]

This type of reasoning bothers me. To put it in a stark way, the kids who are non verbal and unlikely to be largely productive members of society as adults will be able to attend school, but the future doctors/ nurses/ teachers/ etc will be made to sit out. How can a society function if this is our priority?

I know this sounds cold hearted. I’m thinking big picture on purpose with my musings. But what if hospitals functioned the same way- in Italy for example if 2 people needed a hospital bed and one was 85 and had heart disease and one was 30 and healthy, the 30 year old got it. It seems like with schools this plan would only offer in person  education to the most frail. [/quote]

NP. I'm a special education teacher. I understand that you weren't intentionally being cold and were only trying to make a point. Your reasoning is still off because it assumes that the majority of students receiving services have severe developmental delays. The majority of  the kids on my caseload are honor roll students. Most of the kids I've worked with over the years don't present any differently than their typically developing peers. They may have issues with calculation, but are stellar writers (or vice versa). Those who receive specialized services like speech, auditory, or vision aren't necessarily mute, deaf, or blind either. There's a very broad spectrum when it comes to students with disabilities.

I'm not advocating for kids with IEPs going back first. I don't think one group takes preference over another. [/quote]

That’s true, I was going off that assumption. I appreciate your perspective![/quote]

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