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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe that there still aren’t protests in the streets from teachers about least restrictive environment. Yet they’re stressed out and quitting in droves. Do you guys not realize that the public would be behind you on this? You just need to make some noise so lawmakers notice the problem and start asking the public what they want. Laws can be changed.[/quote]

You want schools to segregate kids with developmental disabilities into separate classrooms? No, the public would not be behind you on that. Particularly not once parents of those children told their side of it.

The “f ‘em” attitude that the DMV has for children with autism, ADHD, and other developmental disorders is pretty incredible. Particularly from teachers.[/quote]

Not all disabilities are the same. And some really don’t belong in mainstream classes.

Teachers don’t need to evacuate classrooms if a kid needs a bit more time with a reading tutor each week.[/quote]

I agree.  As the parent of a child who was routinely abused by a special needs child, I object to that child being in a regular classroom.  His behavioral issues were dangerous and very disruptive on the class.  This child had multiple tantrums daily.  In several cases, the rest of the children were required to immediately get up and move into the hallway while the teacher called a special ed specialist to the classroom to handle the child.  25 other children lost learning time multiple times daily due to this behavior.  This child also threw things.  My child was hit in the by a thrown hard-bound book and was choked by the child when my child picked up a book that the other child wanted.  This child hit another child with a chair one day in one of his tantrums.  Partway through the school year one of the para-professionals had to be assigned full-time, 1:1 to this child just to make it through the school day.  But the IEP for this child did not allow the child to be removed from the classroom and the IEP-required responses to the child meant that it disrupted the learning of the other 25 students more than once daily for the entire school year.

We were so lucky that this family moved out of our school zone into another school zone.   I have no problems with non-disruptive children being in regular classrooms, but physically abusive and disruptive children need to be segregated from the regularly classrooms.  I complained multiple times about the physical abuse and the school counselor and administration replied that they were limited in what they were allowed to do by the school district mandated IEP for this child and the responses allowed.[/quote]

I’ve been told the only recourse is calling the police.  I’m sorry that happened to your child and your family.  [/quote]

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