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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an elementary teacher.

The number of kids that need to be serviced is unmanageable. Therefore, to make it a little more reasonable, schools do tend to group a lot of the higher needs kids together and then provide more support to that classroom. However, in addition to these children who need extra academic support, they often also add in kids with behavior needs (whether or not they have IEP's) because of the extra support.

The problem is that a lot of these children need almost a 1-1 (when you have a kid screaming and running down a hallway, it doesn't matter if they have an IEP, they still need direct support). The extra support that was supposed to be shared by all of the kids who deserve it, gets funneled to the one out-of-control child and the classroom teacher is left with the rest.  Then there's the paperwork/IEP meeting day where there is no support for any of the children.

The idea is right, to provide the needed support, but with so many children needing so much support right now, there are just not enough bodies! 
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It seems like the number of kids who need major support is going up exponentially! When I started teaching 15 years ago, we had a few per grade level that we split up. Now, there are around 10 per grade level that have MAJOR needs and many more with minor needs. I don't understand what is going on, but we need a better system for meeting the needs of the children while still allowing all of the children to learn![/b][/quote]

1. Large segments of the population never recovered from the Great Recession so more kids growing up with ACEs
2. Parents are having kids later on life (it takes a long time to become financially secure these days)
3. Assortative mating
4. The middle class is shrinking and in MoCo families are most likely to be very high income (e.g. HHI of $250k or more) or very low income. Nobody in the middle. A significant percentage of the very high income people send their kids to private school.
2. MCPS started putting giant screens in classrooms just about 15 years ago. Today my child talks about "watching" books in school.[/quote]

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