Ugh, my wife has three non-verbal autistic boys in her Kindergarten class this year. She gets 30 mins of extra help a day for it, in the form of a very overworked resource teacher. So those three boys don't get the support they need, and the other 24 kids in her class are basically ignored for most of the day as all her time is spent on …
Ugh, my wife has three non-verbal autistic boys in her Kindergarten class this year. She gets 30 mins of extra help a day for it, in the form of a very overworked resource teacher. So those three boys don't get the support they need, and the other 24 kids in her class are basically ignored for most of the day as all her time is spent on the three.
Every single person involved recognizes it as a terrible situation that benefits no one.. But the school board is so convinced that "integrated" classrooms are the way to go that there is no hope of it changing.
It's a lot easier to insist on integrated classrooms if you aren't actually in the classroom dealing with 27 kids who need attention and 3 profoundly disabled kids who need constant support.
I used to think homeschooling was misguided, but I'm running into more and more "regular" folks who are pulling their kids out of public schools and homeschooling. These aren't religious nuts or "unschoolers." For them to make this leap things must be pretty bad in their kids' classrooms--it's a lot of work.
Ugh, my wife has three non-verbal autistic boys in her Kindergarten class this year. She gets 30 mins of extra help a day for it, in the form of a very overworked resource teacher. So those three boys don't get the support they need, and the other 24 kids in her class are basically ignored for most of the day as all her time is spent on the three.
Every single person involved recognizes it as a terrible situation that benefits no one.. But the school board is so convinced that "integrated" classrooms are the way to go that there is no hope of it changing.
It's a lot easier to insist on integrated classrooms if you aren't actually in the classroom dealing with 27 kids who need attention and 3 profoundly disabled kids who need constant support.
I used to think homeschooling was misguided, but I'm running into more and more "regular" folks who are pulling their kids out of public schools and homeschooling. These aren't religious nuts or "unschoolers." For them to make this leap things must be pretty bad in their kids' classrooms--it's a lot of work.