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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Brent is your IB school, then you really have nothing to lose by going to SWS.  If it doesn't work out, go back to Brent.[/quote]

+1 and to answer pp, the teachers at SWS really get children as learners[/quote]

As long as they're 100% typical. [/quote]

New poster here.  I'm intrigued by this SWS comment, "so long as they're 100% typical."  Could the poster elaborate?

Specifically, I've been thinking of enrolling my child with high-functioning autism into SWS' program for HFA, beginning in 1st grade (ie, one year from now).  My child has already been evaluated for it.   Would you NOT recommend SWS for my "non-typical" child?[/quote]

I'm actually talking more about kids who aren't on the bell curve but who also DON'T have an IEP.  I actually think the SpEd team there is excellent.  I think the regular teachers aren't quite capable of dealing with kids who need something different than most kids (but not so different that they qualify for SpEd)[/quote]

I agree with this.  Kids that are slightly off or behind tend to get lost in the shuffle or not prioritized.  I get that kids with an IEP need more; I'm just not sure that the supports given to them also allow teachers to focus on non-IEP kids who in the words of a PP are not 100% typical.  I think it's hard when you've got a class that's 1/2 IEP kids - whether it's high-functioning autism or something else.  Something has gotta give and it's usually the kids who are slightly off/behind who are the pressure valve.  SWS doesn't have an aide per classroom after K; there are something like three aides that float around the 1st - 3rd grades as needed.  It's only going to get worse as the school adds two grades but doesn't increase it's fundraising in order to be able to afford more aides.[/quote]

Absolutely no class there has that many children with IEPs in it.  [/quote]

the school has 18% special ed, and that includes medically fragile classrooms, so no -- there is no 50% IEP classroom.  Not even close[/quote]

One solid reason to consider as to why a class could be approaching 50% IEP, and one less solid.  I'm solid on the first point.  The second on

Solid reason -   depending on what works best in terms of scheduling hours for IEP kids, the school has opted to group all or most of the special ed kids in a grade in one class.  This doesn't happen every year or at every grade, but it definitely happens.  Talk to the parents of non-IEP kids who had particularly rough years when their child was in such a class.

Less solid - how about kids with 504s?  are they included in the special ed percentage?[/quote]

I think you might not understand the term Medically Fragile. Once you look it up you will understand that, unfortunately, these IEP kids will never be able to be integrated with "normal" kids. Hence your fear of a 50/50 ratio is unfounded unless there are kids in my kids class that are secretly IEP. 
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