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[quote=Anonymous]I know this isn't politically correct to say, but it needs to be said.

I'm very sorry for the families with very high need special needs children.  I am.  I understand how expensive it is, and why they need the support.  However, a lot of our problems in public schools right now are due to the fact that the system has gone overboard in accommodating every child with every situation.  There are children who need 1:1 or even 2:1 attention and need far more help and support than the teaching system can accommodate.  And when you have 5-12 SPED teachers who are handling a school of 300-600 students and you have several children who need 1:1 attention, then you are taking away those teachers from supporting the children who need mild or a middle amount of support.  Then the regular teachers who are already teaching 20-25 students have to take their time to provide the support for the milder cases.  The schools currently do not have the staff and cannot hire the staff to provide the support for the children who need a high amount of attention.

The system cannot sustain itself with the no child left behind policy.  And while i understand how beneficial it is for these children to be in the regular gen ed population, the system needs to set up special education services for the children with extreme special needs.  I've watched three children over my children's elementary school years that demanded so many resources from the SPED and regular teachers that it severely weakened the services they were providing to hundreds of other children.  That's unsustainable when we start the year with holes in the staffing that have not been filled.

And until we can address the huge drain on the teaching staff caused by a handful of students, we are not going to see the situation get better for teachers.[/quote]

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