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[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]

Obviously, this is not the type of child I am talking about, nor did I say that it is always bad to have special needs children in class- my own child has an IEP. I am speaking about kids without 1-1's who have severe behaviors, or are so many grade levels below. It is a different world from what your child experienced.[/quote]

The subject of this offensive thread is about the logic of having special ed students in gen ed classrooms.  If your child has an IEP, I'm not sure why you would be complaining about special needs kids in gen ed classrooms, because your kid is one of them.  Even if you see your child as superior to "other kids with special needs",  other parents with neurotypical kids may feel the same way about your kid with an IEP, and that they're disproportionately absorbing teacher time. It's a slippery slope, so hopefully you can provide a little grace to kids, and not go down the dangerous path of advocating that only neurotypical kids are allowed in gen ed classrooms.[/quote]

NP - why is it a “dangerous path” to advocate that kids of similar abilities be grouped together in gen ed classrooms?  The current model is yielding declining results for everyone.[/quote]

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