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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need more classrooms and teachers for SPED students with dysrequlation issues. But we don't want to pay the teachers the money they need or pay for the increased number of teachers needed. Or pay for the space that is needed. There are no appropriate placement options and the schools are forced to drag out the process because a child needs to get to a certain threshold before the admin outside the school will authorize placement in a specialized classroom.

Parents already complain about the amount of money that goes into SPED, not realizing how much the special programs, reading/math specialists, aides, 1-1 aides, materials, classrooms, and bussing cost. It is a lot. We are losing SPED teachers faster than any other group of teachers because there is not enough admin support, in the form of case workers and people to handle paper work, nevermind actual Admin support, backing the teacher and working to find solutions.

It would help if schools could actually discipline kids, but they can't. And it would help if parents reinforced school rules and discipline at home, but many don't. Kids violate class rules, teachers discipline the kid, teachers get in trouble for making the kid feel bad. Teachers send the kid to the office; the kid comes back with a snack or a toy and returns to whatever behavior they had been doing. Teacher calls the parent, who complains tot he principal that the teacher is being mean, and the teacher gets in trouble.

It is ridiculous. And so teachers are quitting, less experienced teachers are in classes and it just gets worse.

But suggest paying teachers a reasonable wage and allowing for actual discipline and you are crazy. Many of the kids acting out are not SPED, they are poorly disciplined at home and there are no consequences at school. SPED kids who are really struggling need self contained classes to help them develop the skills that they need but those classes don't exist. The system is broken but we don't want to fix it because it costs too much.
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