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Schools usually honor requests to avoid another child, so you can ask why this request was not honored.

However for all the rest, shame on you, OP!

What you expected was highly unethical and immoral.

I have been on the PTA Board for years, and would not tolerate it if my child received favors as a result. That is NOT why I volunteer.
I want to help all the students, not my children in particular.

And as the parent of a child with special needs, I find your remark about the slow learner particularly offensive. At our MCPS school, children with special needs do not slow down the rest of the class - they have aides in the classroom, who help others as well as the child in question, so it's actually a bonus for everyone.

You are a disgusting human being. [/quote]

+1 I was a room parent last year in my oldest child's class. Her teacher was awful and I hated her, in large part because she sought to ignore the accommodations my child needs and made things harder than they needed to be. But I didn't volunteer to curry favor with the teacher - I did it because my child asked me to do it and to make the few class parties allowed at her school fun for the whole class.

Volunteers shouldn't be able to "buy" influence. And kids with special needs have every right to be in the "good" classrooms too.[/quote]
 
In our school if you have an IEP, all kids are placed in one classroom regardless of SN or academics. So, if you have a kid strong in academics who needs minor supports they are placed in the SN classroom with a slower curriculum.  My child has been stuck there for two years and teachers refuse to give her higher level work.  The other issue is she gets very upset by other kids behaviors and is very distracted each time a child is pulled out or having a meltdown.  Since for a few kids the meltdowns are frequent, it interferes with my child's learning and I get calls complaining she is distracted.  The other issue for us is one child for the majority of the year was grabbing her (I think it was to hug or be affectionate) or touching her in other ways which made her scared to go to school.  I complained frequently to get the kids separated given it was physical and they refused to do anything about it saying the child had SN and not his fault.  It may not be his fault (which I agree with) but its a huge issue when my child has to be forced to go to school and comes home crying after being harassed all day.  And, because her needs were so mild in comparison, she never got the support she needed because they had to focus on the kids whose parents insist they be mainstreamed when clearly those kids should be in a more supportive environment.  [/quote]

Your school is breaking the law by putting all kids with disabilities in the same classroom and not providing the same curriculum. That is not the least restrictive environment, as required by IDEA.[/quote]

Maybe but there is not much we can do but go to private.  We are going to ask the IEP be removed to get out of that classroom. [/quote]

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