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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any teachers who have not seen the change are just lucky at this point. When you have a student that makes it impossible to teach, yet the county refuses to move them, EVERY child and adult in the classroom are affected.

OP- you are not imagining things. Students with severe disabilities are much more mainstream than they were even 2 years ago.[/quote]

That's not true.  My oldest kid (now nearly completing high school) had a blind child with cerebral palsy starting in their K class, so this is now over a decade ago. The child had a 1:1 aide--and the teacher said she loved that because that aide could lend a hand if needed as there were always 2 adults in the classroom, which is a gift.

Yes, some kids have special needs--but you're being very closed minded to think that it's always a bad thing to have those special needs kids in class.  The child I mention was a lovely kid--certainly better behaved than some of the neurotypical MCPS kids I've met.  My kid still remembers how they taught him a little Braille so that he could understand how he blind child was learning to read.  [/quote]

It’s very hard for students to get 1:1 support now.   This is happening. And believe me, if a teacher wants to call the police because of immediate safety concerns, they will be disciplined.  Ask me how I know.  [/quote]
I'm sure it was hard to get a 1:1 support 12 years ago too.  But it still happens today.  I've seen it in my kids' classroom where there are extra adults when there are kids with severe needs.  [/quote]

It’s very hard to get 1:1 now because no one wants to do this.  Your anecdotal experience is not the new normal.  [/quote]

Yet we’re supposed to believe that your anecdote is the new normal?  :roll: [/quote]

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