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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not nonsense, it’s due to lack of special ed teachers available to meet the much increased numbers of students with IEPs. Students with violent behaviors has increased and so teachers willing to put their bodies at risk for these students are becoming fewer and fewer. So each school has 1-2 special education teachers each with a demanding caseload and tons of IEP meetings and not enough time to teach.

To expect public school to meet the needs of every single student at every single level is what is nonsense. [/quote]

That's not why spec ed teachers are quitting. It's because they have a ton of paperwork to do and a ton of IEP meetings to attend and absolutely no extra time to do that, plus prepare lessons and do all the things other teachers have to do. The workload is insane. That's the reason they leave.

The reason not enough come in is because it's more time consuming and expensive to get a spec ed endorsement than most other types. I think the next step the county (or maybe even state) is planning is to make that easier to get somehow. It's a good idea for addressing a shortage, but it's a terrible idea for teacher quality. It's the reason we now have teachers in subject areas from English to Algebra who have no legitimate qualifications to teach those subjects other than passing a relatively simple state test. [/quote]

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