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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am screaming here in my mind at some of the backseat comments posted here. I am a parent here with DC that is diagnosed with learning disabilities and  during virtual learing they got little to no support despite virtual learning be a disaster for them. There are still learning gaps in my DC 2nd grade classroom in non title I north APS classroom.  I know because I request math materials being taught to be sent home a head of time, and the circulum is the end of first grade. So not only is my  DC behind,but many are. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if most students are still behind it is a high probability that those with a disability are even further behind. I agree the COVID-19 remediation support money was mismanaged, and it still digusts me.....sorry it is harder to let go when you had to pay thousands for tutoring support and math curriculum for home to basically catch your child up despite working 40 plus hours a week yourself.....so yes sorry it is easier said than done to just get over how APS is doing little to nothing to support our youngest learners that lost the most fundamental skills during virtual!!!!!  For crying out loud my DC 1st grade teacher was given permission to ask parents to volunteer to come in and support her all of last year because the learning lost was so grave, and why because APS had no funds to support an aide as they have in K classrooms. I know several other school districts that did use the government funds for tutoring support etc. People are being prosecuted for Misuse or lying on their PP loans so why shouldn't a school district be held to a same standard 🤔 for misuse of government aide funds????? So please save your empty comments unless you have experienced what OP is referring to or can at least empathize with it as it is a real problem ongoing. [/quote]

If your kid has learning disabilities then he/she probably clustered with other kids with similar abilities. And not all kids in the class are necessarily getting the same content as other kids in the same class/grade. That has been my experience with my kid with LDs. 
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Was your child in a class that was co-taught with a special education teacher? That sounds like situations where they might cluster.  But there would still be non-SWDs in that class. I'll trust your experience, but have to assume that the teacher/s were providing differentiated instruction since even in a cluster there would be students with different abilities/strengths/weaknesses.  But our experience was the exact opposite. DC was not clustered. During virtual year, we could even see other kids in pull out SpEd classes and the 3-4 kids were from various classrooms. DC got a mix of pull-out/push-in services.

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Not co-taught full-time but a specialist would get pulled in during ELA and/or math. And in later ES the kids switched for math.

APS clusters both gifted and SN kids - sometimes in the same homeroom. It’s not always obvious though because the differentiation happens in small groups so you don’t always see what other kids are doing. 
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