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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a McPS staffer, just a parent, but have heard that in my kids’ elementary school, they tend to cluster a lot of the kids with IEPs in the same class rather than distributing them evenly because it’s easier to provide similar extra resources (like extra paras to deal with special needs or extra reading specialists for dyslexia or whatever) if more kids with those needs are in one class.

My kid (who doesn’t have an IEP) was in one of the classes that seemed to have a lot of special needs kids last year, but not this year.

I definitely get fewer reports of kid misbehavior/meltdowns this year.  But the paraprofessionals who helped my kid’s class last year (even the ones without special needs) don’t come to my kid’s class this year-it’s just the teacher.  So there are tradeoffs.  [b]Kids with more needs bring more resources to the classroom that can benefit all the kids in that class. [/b]

Don’t judge your kids’ school by one class party.
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Yeah, no. WAY better to be in the other class with no paras and no “more resources,” thanks.[/quote]

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