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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC is at the same table with a boy shouting constantly and never listen to teachers. Another kid at the same class would also scream and cry. My DC told us she’s so tired and depressed but what can we do? I’m sorry for those kids have ADHD or whatever but why is my child the one suffers?[/quote]

Your child will be fine. The ADHD kid - will most likely suffer from debilitating self-esteem issues as he transitions into adolescence, start to not care about school and underperform, and struggle his whole life to maintain healthy relationships. Your daughter will be taking her AP classes and will not have to worry about having those crazy, disruptive kids in her classes anymore. [/quote]

Nope, I was one of the "good" kids and teachers would use me to separate the bad actors. I did ok, but never succeeded like the kids who weren't used as human shields around the problem kids. [/quote]

I have a well behaved kid and I thought I was imagining it when he was always put in the class with all the bad kids and all the ESOL kids. It just felt like he was always with the bad kids. Several years later, another mom told me it was called balancing. She said they would put all the kids who needed support in a class so the aids didn’t jump from multiple classrooms in the same grade. They would then add the better behaved kids to the same class to make it easier for the teacher. Maybe better for the teacher but worse for my kid. I was glad to know that I wasn’t imagining it.

He is now in middle school and kids are separated by ability. [/quote]

The ESOL kids?! How terrible. It’s not like your child could learn anything about different cultures, languages and experiences from being in a class with non English speaking children.

Even if a class has the ESOL kids or the Sped kids for the purpose of allowing for the ESOL and special teachers to push into the classroom, there is a ratio of special Ed to general Ed children that must be maintained, or else it is not considered a general education class. I’m not sure what the exact ratio is, but the number of gen Ed students far outnumbers the special Ed (think in a class of 25, about 5 or 6 would have IEPs). I actually enjoy teaching in these classrooms because you are given lots of support and the children have already been identified as needing special education. Often, it is the unidentified children in the other classes who are much more difficult because their needs are not understood and they have no additional supports. There are many advantages to having your “good” child in a class like this. Aside from the obvious benefit of learning that others may be different but still have strengths and gifts, I often felt like I had more time with my “typical” students because I often had additional adults in the room. [/quote]

My son is now 13 and in 8th grade. This was back in he was in first grade so seven years ago. He switched to an AAP center in third grade.

My daughter is in a class with the special education kids. I believe all the ESOL kids are in another class. When my son was in first grade, I am pretty sure all the ESOL and SpEd students were in his class. In that year, there were only 2 classes in first grade.[/quote]

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