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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And so many students have IEPs these days (or 504s), I would venture to guess that unless you are talking HS AP foreign language or HS AP high level math, EVERY classroom has at least 1, if not more than 1, with an IEP or 504[/quote]My son had an IEP from 2nd through 12 grade for dyslexia and dysgraphia. He took 8 AP and two post AP classes. [/quote] adding including AP BC calculus, AP Chem, both AP Physics C. [/quote]

This isn't the issue or what she is asking.  In ES, some schools put any child with an IEP in the same classroom.  It doesn't matter why the child has an IEP and then they mix in a few other kids.  It works great for some kids and not so great for other kids.  They don't allow classroom choice and you are forced into this classroom and the only way out is to get rid of the IEP.[/quote]

In my son's case it was a disaster for him. He has dyslexia and really needed and OG program. I had no issue getting the IEP because he was first eligible under speech then Specific Learning Disability. By the end of first he couldn't read and didn't have pre-reading skills like being able to rhyme, orally blend, or say the beginning or ending sounds of words. They stuck him in second grade in a class where all the students who had IEP's were placed (there were a few kids who had speech only IEP's in other rooms). There was an aide assigned full time to the class and the special ed teacher pushed in part of the day. My son did NOT get what he needed which was OG reading and spelling help. The class was so loud and there were so many behavior issue. They placed a couple of students who needed IEP's in that room but didn't have them perhaps because an aide was in there. My son barely ever got pulled to do reading and when he did he was grouped with kids who had different issues - ID, ADHD, etc. The classroom had to be evacuated regularly because of two really disruptive students.

In the end I had to have him exit special ed so he wouldn't be placed in that type of classroom for third grade. I had him switch to a 504 plan and he got help from the school reading intervention teacher who was SO much better than the special ed teacher. He didn't qualify to get help from the intervention teacher when he was in special ed. 
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