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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Some of these comments are awful. I can tell you that, a few decades ago, yes— they put all the sped kids in their own class. This included kids with profound disabilities who could not speak or use the toilet even as teenagers, and it included kids with dyslexia.

My sibling & my spouse were in classes like this (both dyslexic). Trust me, it did NOT lead to “better educational outcomes” for the kids who just had an LD. Instead, kids in those classes were stigmatized by peers, and the adults at the school assumed they weren’t capable of much & certainly wouldn’t go to college. It was an awful system.

Now, I agree that kids with extreme needs/profound cognitive or developmental disabilities might do better with their own class/nor mainstreamed. [b]But that’s already happening[/b]. [/quote]

Not necessarily. It’s cheaper for districts to put even those with significant needs in a regular classroom (claiming LRE), but they’re doing everyone a disservice by putting a kid with significant behavioral problems in with everyone else.

Just last week on AEM, a parent was asking for advice because her child has been violently attacked TWICE by a sped student (one attack was choking, both incidents blood was drawn). And so many people argued that the violent child should remain in the room! INSANITY.[/quote]

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