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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All you folks talking about poorly behaved special needs kids are likely NOT parents of kids with unique needs, and you should consider yourself lucky.  Such holier than thou attitudes and a wholesale lack of empathy for kids.

No kid WANTS to behave that way.  Behaviors like that are expressing an unmet need.  Those kids are in a world a hurt and need support, possibly therapy or other tools.  It is not unlike a kid with dyslexia or even a physical disability.

Schools, SN kids, and resources were barely getting by pre pandemic and now we’ve got two years of no progress and more stress on everyone, especially those kids who were left behind.  And the learning loss amongst SN kids was far worse than most typical kids.

Rather than fault the kids, or the parents of those kids, start screaming at your school boards and their inane funding priorities.  Raise teacher salaries, invest in more SN instructional assistants and their training, more case managers and specialists.  Maybe something more than 1 BCBA for 25 schools would help… [/quote]

All people are saying is that those kids don't belong in the classroom with neurotypical kids.  It doesn't serve society well to help out one or two kids at the expense of 25 others.[/quote]

It also doesn’t serve the SN kids! If the SN parents have to drug, punish, pay thousands for aides all to survive school, why are they in school in the first place??? It’s obviously not the right environment for them. [/quote]

I really don't know what some of these kids are getting from being mainstreamed, apart from basically being in a babysitter's care at school. I heard of a kid last year who would actually run out of the classroom and bolt for the outside door and try to run into traffic. I don't know of a teacher or aide who met him who wasn't punched or kicked. Because of laws and regulations now, we also cannot "physically restrain" or restrict kids at all unless specially trained (which teachers and aides are not), so he is allowed to wander the classroom, run out of specials into the hall, and run outside to have his own recess and an assistant teacher can do nothing but follow him and try to redirect. We cannot guide him physically. A kid like that is not getting anything out of being in a regular classroom.

I am NOT talking about kid with dyslexia or who has a hearing aide! The examples people are giving above are not at all what I am talking about. I am talking about the extreme outliers who make it near impossible for other kids to learn and who are repeatedly physically violent to adults and peers. [/quote]

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