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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a newbie to public school (kid is about to start K) so sorry for the dumb question but could this not be integrated into the general ed curriculum? I have heard from an educator friend in a very low income community that by middle school the kids in general ed with ASD diagnoses do the best with social skills because they have received explicit instruction (maybe outside of school?) in this area, whereas those without diagnoses have a lot of social skills gaps. I think more kids need this than are identified.[/quote]

As a former teacher, this is so triggering. Please don’t say this out loud. When I first taught, we had X minutes for reading, x minutes for writing, x minutes for math, etc. The problem is that all of the minutes added up to more minutes than we had in a week. So teachers are basically integrating all of science and/or social studies and/or health (Yes, we had elementary health lessons in fcps in the 00s.) There are no more margins. If you want to add in social skills training, you need to take something else out. Lessons are already really short in the primary classes as well. A first grader can only sit still for 10 minutes in September. You can’t effectively teach most concepts in less time. So if you add social skills in, which some children need, something else will come out, something that all children need.[/quote]

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