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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have an elementary school with special ed kids and I love that my "gen ed" kids have had these children in their classrooms. Maybe we are lucky with great aides and teachers, but I have only found it to be a benefit to my kids to learn that not everyone looks the same or learns the same or sounds the same and that there is room for everyone. I am pretty appalled at the responses here.

And I will add that in kindergarten, one of my son's classmates wasn't fully diagnosed as autistic yet and [b]there was a lot of chair throwing, hitting, etc. and the kids had to evacuate the classroom sometimes. [/b]So it hasn't been all sunshine and roses. But now that student is receiving proper services and has come such a long way. I love asking my son how this student is doing and hearing great things about how well he's doing now, 3 years later.

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Some kids may not be bothered by that while it's highly distressing to others. I think parents of those children have a right to request a different placement. I currently have this situation in my classroom and luckily none of the other students seem to mind much. My own child is highly sensitive to it.[/quote]

This is our experience too.
Most children are resilient and do fine even in the environment described. Our child had a friend who went through this experience in early elementary and it did not bother DC at all. DC had a great K year as did the classmates we know and I never heard a complaint from any of the other parents.

There is always the one child with sensitivity so this bothers them a lot and those parents have the right to request a chance of classroom. It's not because the children with special needs are so exceptionally bad or poorly behaved. It's about their own child being a match or not. 
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