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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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. 
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Yeah, I think if we funded the amount of special education teachers that we actually need so that intensive behavior support was available for those who needed it AND all the other the students who should be getting support actually got it, then many teachers and parents would be pulling their hair out less. Special education teachers get pulled to deal with a couple of students in crisis all day long, and that leaves the students who should be getting support, per their IEPs, getting help solely from the classroom teachers, who are also running the gen ed classroom. Imagine someone running around plugging a thousand holes as they burst in an overflowing dam, and that's what it looks like trying to get adequate staffing and coverage of students these days.[/quote]

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