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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a public educator for a long time.  I sent my own kids to a public school.  But what I've seen over the past few years has made me think that if I had school aged kids now, I would probably not send them to a public school for the exact reasons your family member described.  [b]I have no issue with kids who have IEPs.  I do have issues with physically aggressive students.  Physically aggressive children do not belong in gen Ed rooms, period.  I could no longer guarantee that I could provide a basic level of safety for all my students (or myself) in public Ed and I left because of it. [/b]

Your family member is making decisions based on real time experiences in schools.  She's smart.
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+1. Also a former public school teacher. Very supportive of inclusion of kids w various needs and abilities and went through lots of training to effectively differentiate instruction for all learning levels/abilities BUT finally left teaching as I realized that the kids who are violent, aggressive, defiant and oppositional are not going to be managed and it is often not a safe environment for students or staff.[b] neither admin nor parents will do anything about it[/b]. [b]Kids aren’t suspended or expelled until something horrible happens[/b]. It is is not an environment that is safe for students or teachers. Obviously not every public school has the same issues and there are lots of great public schools out there. but the system is broken and classrooms/schools that were once great can quickly devolve into chaos with a bad mixture of students.[/quote]

This demonstrates the real misunderstanding around disabled kids who demonstrate aggressive behaviors.  In most cases, these kids are not choosing to be violent, but rather it is a behavioral symptom of their disability.  Suspending or expelling them makes the parents of NT kids and teachers feel good, but does nothing for the SN child.  Reward/consequence does not work here.  I 100% agree that kids with these behaviors should not be in mainstream classrooms- it is not a safe situation for all of the kids involved and makes learning very difficult.  [/quote]

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