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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn’t one kid. These days it’s 1/4 of the class or more. [/quote]

This is the problem.  In my 5th period gen ed class of 30 high school students, I have 11 504s for adhd. All of them have the accommodation of "preferential seating near the point of instruction, away from distractions".  I'd love for you to make my seating chart.[/quote]

This. I had a class last year in which 1/3rd of my students had preferential seating away from distractions. It’s physically not possible. [/quote]

I don’t know what “away from distractions” means.  Assuming the teacher is lecturing or the students are completing work at their desks, what distractions?  A bird at a window?  How do you control for that?[/quote]

So many distractions. If they have a desk with stuff in it, they’re inevitably cutting paper with scissors or playing with something, doodling. They turn and talk to the person next to them all the time, it doesn’t matter if the teacher is lecturing and it doesn’t matter if the teacher has strong expectations and consistent rules/consequences. They have something in their pocket and they’re playing with it. Some classes are better than others, but dynamics play heavily into it. There’s one class I work with this year (I’m not a classroom teacher but I work in ES) that has at least 6 kids with ADHD and it’s constant constant noise. Tapping, murmuring, humming. Even after physical brain breaks….it’s a lot.[/quote]

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