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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends - if they have an iep? I’d tell them that most of the services are delivered by the general Ed teacher because inclusion spec Ed teachers are stretched too thin and we spend so much time on paperwork and not with kids. I’d also tell them no matter what they “advocate for” in the iep, it doesn’t actually happen during the school day due to limited resources and time so half the time we just agree to make you go away [/quote]

We know. Thanks for being a failure in your life's work.[/quote]

NP; When you're considered a failure for not being to clone yourself, you know MCPS parents have high expectations. Keep holding those teachers feet to the physically impossible fire[/quote]

We are talking about kids with disabilities who have legal rights to an accessible education. Parents aren’t holding teachers to anything unreasonable. There is a legal, moral, and ethical obligation here and if you can’t meet it because of “resources” your beef isn’t with the parents and their expectations aren’t unreasonable. The problem lies elsewhere. Stop taking it out on the kids and their parents. [/quote]Parents are asking for more than an accessible education. They're asking for special education in the general education classroom.[/quote]

OK, but that’s what IDEA says students are entitled to.[/quote]

Unfunded entitlements take general funding from everyone else.  It sounds like IDEA needs to be updated so that  all the obligations are fully covered from the level of government issuing the mandate, and on a regional cost parity basis.  With enough implementation experience, now, it also might be modified to reduce the gaming described.  If these aren't done, everyone else suffers unjustly.[/quote]

You propose that federal legislation be passed? In 2023?

LOL[/quote]

She’s just venting because she doesn’t want to have to teach kids with developmental disabilities but likely doesn’t have unique skills that would get her a position in a decent private school. She’s probably in her 50s or 60s, stuck in a job she hates, surrounded by kids that she hates even more.[/quote]

That's funny, because I was a different poster observing the effects of unfunded mandates, and not a teacher.

To the PP, I'm not saying what will happen, but what should (within that microcosm).  Expecting the burdens of legislation to be picked up by others, mostly teachers in this case, but also other students due to the knock-on effects of under-resourcing, is magical thinking.[/quote]

Federal legislation on IDEA—passed by this Congress—that does something any of us will like is also magical thinking.[/quote]

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