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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They do this at my kids’ school - one class per grade in 3rd-6th is the LLIV class with all the high achievers (many go to the center but a few stay especially if they have a sibling in Gen Ed), some of the advanced math kids, and some kids on grade level. Another class has the rest of the advanced math kids (they trade rooms for math and go to the LLIV teacher, and switch with the on grade level math kids from that class) and on grade level kids. And the 3rd has most (not all but most) of the behavioral cases and the kids who are “behind.” They also have a few aides who rotate in and out throughout the day whereas the other two classes do not. It’s not a great situation and everyone tries to avoid it by pushing for advanced math.

The problem is a lot of the boys in the “behaviors” class don’t get along with each other and there is a lot of interpersonal drama and scuffles that leak out into the rest of the class, many of whom are quiet girls who are maybe ESOL, inattentive ADD, mild ASD, and/or have learning disabilities. [/quote]

This is very similar to (the same as?) my kid’s elementary school. Most of the IEP/504 kids are all in the same class together in each grade. And the reason I know is that (1) parents talk and generally share strategies for negotiating 504 plans, and (2) two years ago, a teacher accidentally sent an email to the whole class parent list with the IEP/504 students identified. It was a huge privacy violation, and I don’t know if the teacher ever got in trouble for it, but it confirmed what everyone already knew— this school is clustering these kids together.[/quote]

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