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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid with dyslexia and an IEP. He's currently in classes with the additional teacher, which means that there are a high number of spec ed kids in that class. He's in MS now.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have refused all classes with aides in his plan. He's currently enrolling in HS and our plan is to keep him out of all such classes. The behavior disruptions are off the hook. It's untenable.

My younger DS has ADHD and a 504. We will have him not go anywhere near those types of classes. He doesn't have any behavior components to his ADHD.

It's not that these kids with behaviors in school are necessarily bad kids. Actually, they're often funny and nice and can be very polite. No thanks, though, in a classroom environment.[/quote]

It is a big problem in ES that they group all the kids with IEPs together and allow kids to remain in Gen Ed that clearly are unable to succeed in that setting.  My DD has anxiety and dyslexia and had a very hard time at the beginning of the year with all the noise and chaos of her class and one very disruptive student who really should not be in Gen Ed.  She was using her flash pass quite a bit just to not be in the classroom, so the inclusion of this other student meant that my child was being excluded from the classroom.  Things evened out a bit, but it is still a challenge.

My high-schooler has been in team taught classes since middle school and has not had a problem with disruptive kids.  The times he complains about disruptive kids are in PE and his foreign language (which is Gen Ed).  So I think team taught classes in middle school and high school may be school/class dependent and we may have gotten lucky.  But I think by middle school, some of the kids that should not have been in Gen Ed can actually be moved to self-contained classes, which helps the team taught and Gen Ed classes not be disrupted as often.[/quote]

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