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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a troll, there’s no teacher in the world like this. [/quote]

Unfortunately, if you've been following the school forums, there's been a string of threads addressing students with special needs where current and former teachers have displayed incredible ignorance and intolerance towards kids with disabilities.

This can't be an experienced kindergarten teacher, but it could be an older elementary teacher that recently switched to K. And if her colleagues knew she wasn't able to deal with kids with disabilities, they may have given her classes without kids with IEPs. That doesn't work for kindergarten, though, because a lot of kids won't get IEPs until after school starts.[/quote]

She is perplexed and frustrated, it's a normal reaction, especially since the parents are non communicative and uninvolved. The special needs forum is full of parents who say I can't do this for the rest of my life, but here we are going to bash K teachers for trying to ameliorate a tough situation while also wrangling 12-15 other 5 year olds.[/quote]

I’m the person that thinks this is a troll. I have a kid with profound special needs that wears a diaper at age 14, has no communication and is in a self contained class. I don’t believe any actual long time teacher would be “perplexed”. Frustrated — sure. Trying to push to get this kid the services they need, which might not be in her class — sure. But this big eyed “how on earth does this ever happen” is troll level nonsense.

And to the other poster, sure there are some teachers that act pretty jerky about special needs kids. But I still call troll on this one.[/quote]

My guess is that they are either relatively new and/or teach at a private school.  Some private schools don't accommodate students with special needs so there are fewer of them to begin with.  Also, at our ES, there are a lot of dual-working parents so most kids attended fulltime daycare/preschool, and it gets addressed there.  [/quote]

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