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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax county’s school board and administration just keep piling on the demands of teachers in FCPS.  Nearly all the new demands are equity-driven.

FCPS is losing teachers, both old and new, while also lowering the quality of education offered to students in the county.[/quote]

This and it’s so much worse this year-more will leave[/quote]

It's not just FCPS. My district in MD seems intent on piling on the work so that teachers will quit. It's insanity. My mom taught the same grade I do. She retired after 28 yrs. I tell her what we have to do and she is dumbfounded. All she had to do was teach and grade. [/quote]

This is why most sped should be removed from the gen ed classroom along with kids who exhibit anti-social behaviors. Parents who can't even parent their own learning disabled or emotionally challenged children effectively are basically expecting strangers to do the work for them while managing 20-30 other kids in k-5 or 100+ kids in 6-12. They try to shame other parents and kids by saying that normal kids "need" to be around these other kids, and not the other way around. The result is a general downward trend in education for everyone, and teacher burn out.

Is there a study that shows test scores are higher for [u]all kids[/u] in a class that has sped kids mixed with regular kids? Or does it show that gen ed kids perform lower than they should while sped kids perform better? If it's the latter, then this could translate into 100s of thousands of dollars in lost income over the course of a lifetime for gen ed kids because they're collateral damage.[/quote]

You're making blanket generalizations that simply aren't true.

I'm HS gen ed teacher teaching a couple of team-taught classes this year with a mix of gen ed and SPED students. Some of my SPED kids are stronger students than a number of the gen ed kids. Most of my SPED students are very well behaved, earnest and hard working. My students with autism are great--they are kind, follow instructions, are polite, don't argue, don't cheat and don't lie to me (about having done their homework) or to their parents (about whatever excuse for why they're not doing well in class). If it weren't for some quirks, you'd never guess they were SPED and they would stand out as terrific kids.[/quote]

Then you don’t have the sort of classroom that pp is talking about, do you?[/quote]

What from the description makes you think I don't? If it's the co-teaching situation, that makes no difference behavior-wise. When a kid starts to act out and one of us has to take them out in the hallway to talk or call parents, the entire class will lose the thread of what's going on for at least 5 minutes. I can assure you misbehavior is equal opportunity when it comes to SPED vs. gen ed students, and some gen ed students are way worse because they plan it out and their parents refuse to believe that their angel did anything wrong.[/quote]

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