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[quote=Anonymous]We have an ED program at our school and DS has a good friend in it so my knowledge is second hand. DS's friend is mainstreamed the great majority of the day with an aide. He is in the self-contained classroom for social skills and maybe one other subject. The schedule is very strict as far as we can tell and DS's friend is always in the mainstream classroom at the same times every day. As far as DS is concerned he's just another member of the class except he sometimes gets pulled out to go elsewhere but lots of other kids get pulled out for speech and other things so it's not a big deal. The child is in the highest reading group and gets all the same academics as the rest of the very bright kids in the class.

The only reason I know he's in this program is because his mother has been very open about her son's experiences. I volunteer a lot and have never seen him have any issues. He came from a different school so I don't know what he was like before but he's doing great now.

The mother told me that our particular school does tend to move kids out of the program very quickly so it could be that some programs are better than others.

[quote=Anonymous]I have a very bright child who has been in self contained classes for behavior.

Do whatever you can to say in the regular classes. The academics are NEVER as good in the self contained. Imagine your son in a class of 10 kids, all equally or more disruptive than he is. Ten kids at ten different academic levels, most of them significantly behind. You will be shocked at how poor the academic education can be in those classes. Also, we were told that many children spend a year or two in the self-contained classes and then move back into mainstream once they have learned better skills, but we have never observed a child move into a less restrictive class. Most children seem to stay in the program until middle school and some go further into more restrictive settings (SN only schools etc.)

The problem I think is that there is very little real evidence based skills-teaching. How to develop self-control, how to problem solve, etc. It feels like warehousing kids just to keep them from bothering the regular kids.

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