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I am sure you are a great teacher but don't you just get that what you do may just be great for 99% of the kids - and while "if I have touched one child's life today I have made a difference" translates to kids with learning issues - minor ones - "well that wasn't me" and can't it just be true that for that 1 out of 100 kids they need something different and it does not mean that your school or class or anything is bad it just means it's not good for certain kids.

Do you really not understand that? and you are a teacher? you should talk to the learning specialist in your school and ask her what happens to a kid that is in the 70 percentile preforming in the 40 percentile - still getting C's - what they do for a kid like that - with no measurable LD's. How that affects him in middle and high school.

What kind of training do you have in teaching a kid with dyslexia, or aspergers, or tourettes. These seem to be the kids that are fleeing the public schools.[/quote]

I'm the PP you replied to, and am entirely baffled by this response.  I am a teacher, and I'm also a parent.  I'm on this board because my own child is at a transition stage, moving from one school to the next in the fall of 2013, and so each time that happens I take the time to evaluate my options and make sure I'm making the best choices for him.  Public and private are both on the table.  I have no idea how you could draw conclusions from what I posted about what kind of teacher I am, what I know or understand, or how I serve the kids in my classes.

Someone posted a schedule, a schedule that was supposed to be evidence that public schools could easily do something, and yet the schedule wasn't realistic.  It was missing things kids need, including things like art and music that the person proposing it claimed are important.  It had more hours in it than exist in the school day.  So I responded, to that particular post.

I don't have a problem with parents choosing private schools for their child.  Like I said, it's possible I'll do the same for my child.  I do have issues with parents choosing private schools based on misperceptions about public schools, and then not doing the research to clear up those misperceptions.  So, when I see those misperceptions I'm going to correct them.

I happen to be a special educator, so I have substantial training and experience in the disabilities you listed.  [/quote]

How are you able to implement Orton-Gillingham in your classroom? or what method do you use?[/quote]

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