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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My confession is that I rarely see inclusion work in practice. Many classroom teachers don't want us in there, the staffing for in classroom support is too low and the pace of the modern classroom makes it incredibly difficult. [/quote]

I'm really curious about this, because our issue with the school has been different from most people's. We keep advocating for DS to be in LRE and the school's plan is always to put him in SC classrooms, arguing that he can't keep up otherwise. The kid has A's and B's and passed advanced the SOLs in his mainstream classes and had lower SOL scores (but still passing) in the SC classes. How is that "not keeping up?"[/quote]
Obviously I don't know the particulars of your child, is behavior a factor in why they want him contained? That's the only reason I have seen academically proficient students put in self contained classrooms. [/quote]

NP.  Our school wanted to give us funding for SN school without going through Due Process bc of behavioral issues.  DC is at least two grades above grade level across the board academically but was giving his teachers a really hard time.  Once the behavior issues were gone, no more mention of SN placement.

I got the impression that it is probably easier to get funding for SN school due to behavioral issues than it is for academics.[/quote]
it definitely is if there is a physical manifestation. When you are in a contained program with 10 kids and 3 adults it's much easier to diffuse and restrain if necessary. It becomes much more difficult when there are 25 kids in the class and one adult who is trained to specifically deal with these issues. [/quote]

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