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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is 100% about money. If you think otherwise you are mistaken.

20-30 years ago, special ed kids were locked in a basement classroom and just sat there. They weren't taught a thing and people gave up on them. Parents fought back, said their kids had a right to a free and education, and better situations occurred.  Students were put in smaller classes with more support. Sometimes with an aide. But, that ended up costing too much money. So, more mainstreaming, throw a paraeducator in there, and everything will be fine. That will cost less than smaller discrete classrooms with more support. Having six special ed students in a classroom with a paraeducator to support them cost less than a discrete classroom.

But the pendulum has now swung too far.  The special education and ED kids are not getting the education they deserve, nor are the Gen ed kids.

Something has to change, but it will cost more. A lot more.  And while many realize that this is a problem, not many want to cough up the funds to solve the problem.[/quote]

Stop posting nonsense. 20-30 years ago kids weren't locked in basement classrooms. I taught a elementary self-contained special ed. classroom 20 to 25 years ago. It was a great set-up. I had anywhere from 12-14 students in 3-4th grade who had learning disabilities or ADHD. I also had an aide. Those kids needed a classroom with not as many students with additional adult help. We could teach them how to read and give them lots of attention because we did rotation with 4 kids with me, one group with an aide and the rest doing independent work at stations. Kids who had behavior issues because they couldn't do grade level work and acted out thrived in our class. Because they were finally given work at their level and were learning to be fluent readers. Kids who couldn't handle the commotion of being with 25 other kids, did better in a smaller setting. Eventually, inclusion advocates came in from a nearby university and harped on how awful it was to segregate kids. They dissolved my classroom and I was supposed to team teach or push in while they gave students aides. The district I worked in aides got health and other benefits so having to pay for all those aides ended up costing more than my salary and my aide.. No one was happy except the inclusion advocates. Some kids truly cannot thrive in large classrooms. [/quote]

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