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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best years my gen Ed kid has had have been in inclusion classrooms. The unfounded judgment of kids with IEPs is disgusting. [/quote]

It's not unfounded for many kids in these inclusive classrooms who have had very negative, even traumatic experiences.

My kid had to see a therapist for anxiety related to going to school in her inclusive class. Why? Because two students in the class regularly had meltdowns that caused the classroom to be evacuated. These meltdowns included lots of yelling, throwing items, and in a few cases, outright assault on the teacher and aide.

It got to the point where their class was evacuating the classroom weekly. The one student's behavior just got more and more destructive to the point where he trashed a classroom one time and the kids had to finish out the day in neighboring classrooms.

That's UNACCEPTABLE behavior for anyone. My kid shouldn't have been scared of going to school because of two students who, and I will just keep it real, are never going to amount to anything. One student is mostly nonverbal with significant delays. I cannot think of any job that he can do in his future. It's sad, but it is what it is.

When I was in school, these types of students were in their own classrooms. That's how it should be. If you're a disruptive student, you don't get to be mainstreamed.

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Same. [b]My dd is quiet, helpful and friendly[/b]. Thus she got 3 special ed kids placed in her block of 4 table. I really had no idea what was going on when she started crying every morning and crying at night too. She begged and begged to not have to go to school. Turns out the kids were kicking her, pinching her, shredding her work, ripping up her library book, and were so loud during individual work time and class time that she had trouble working. She came home one day with a huge bruise on her body and that's when I got the full story. Her seat mate had slammed the door to the bathroom into her so hard that the knob bruised her badly. Her teacher didn't pick up on her unhappiness or how the rest of the class was falling behind because she had her hands full. 2 of the kids were violent and they had to evacuate the classroom several times.

I agree with the person who said that "least restrictive environment" was meant for physical disabilites, not mental.

We also had the issue one year with my other kid's class being the Spanish class. Out of the 4 Kindergarten classrooms, they chose one to put them all together. Over half the class didn't speak English. They were well behaved kids, but there was basically no teacher time for the rest of the kids because the focus was on learning English. It was a K class, so it's not like they could read or write in Spanish either. I wished the class was a Spanish immersion class.[/quote]

Ours is the same way and usually she ends up that the problem table because other girls would speak up and boys would respond. It usually took asking the principal about filing a formal bullying complaint (always nicely) to get her moved. [/quote]

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