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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 211418" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>You're right, it is one of the oldest tricks in the book. My daughter is in a class that had 6 seating chart changes in the first 8 weeks of class due to talking and other issues. This is a veteran teacher whom I've never heard of having control problems before but the makeup of our school poplulation has changed a great deal over the past few years. </p><p> </p><p>Terry, I really applaud your son's teacher for approaching the parents as a whole like this and you for taking action. My daugther is a top student in her class who loves learning and she's incredibly frustrated and learning less this year than any previous year. As a parent I'm finding that my attitudes towards a lot of things I've been supportive of in the past are adjusting as I've seeing first hand the impact that altogether changes are having on her situation. Since my oldest started at the school ten years ago we've seen a doubling of the at risk and special education populations, the addition of NCLB, and finally this school year they went to full inclusion into regular classrooms for all special needs kids except for the very severe and it's been very disruptive to the classroom setting and putting even more workload on the teachers. We were the magnet school for the standalone special needs classrooms in the district so they all were dispersed into regular classrooms for as much of the day as they can handle and supposedly they were to have enough help. You can imagine how torn I feel knowing the advantages to having an appropriate amount of regular classroom time vs. it coming as a cost to my daughter's education! It's disheartening to see a student who loves school and wants to learn being held back from doing so and I'm just sick about it. I'm a huge supporter of public school but for the first time ever I've considered pulling her out, as are other parents who make up the heart of the volunteer force at the school. </p><p> </p><p>Anyway, from a parent of one of the kids not in the talkfest, I thank you, as I know you'll jump right in there, but there will likely be a lot of parents who won't. When these problems aren't dealt with effectively, the ramifications on education can be profound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 211418, member: 701"] You're right, it is one of the oldest tricks in the book. My daughter is in a class that had 6 seating chart changes in the first 8 weeks of class due to talking and other issues. This is a veteran teacher whom I've never heard of having control problems before but the makeup of our school poplulation has changed a great deal over the past few years. Terry, I really applaud your son's teacher for approaching the parents as a whole like this and you for taking action. My daugther is a top student in her class who loves learning and she's incredibly frustrated and learning less this year than any previous year. As a parent I'm finding that my attitudes towards a lot of things I've been supportive of in the past are adjusting as I've seeing first hand the impact that altogether changes are having on her situation. Since my oldest started at the school ten years ago we've seen a doubling of the at risk and special education populations, the addition of NCLB, and finally this school year they went to full inclusion into regular classrooms for all special needs kids except for the very severe and it's been very disruptive to the classroom setting and putting even more workload on the teachers. We were the magnet school for the standalone special needs classrooms in the district so they all were dispersed into regular classrooms for as much of the day as they can handle and supposedly they were to have enough help. You can imagine how torn I feel knowing the advantages to having an appropriate amount of regular classroom time vs. it coming as a cost to my daughter's education! It's disheartening to see a student who loves school and wants to learn being held back from doing so and I'm just sick about it. I'm a huge supporter of public school but for the first time ever I've considered pulling her out, as are other parents who make up the heart of the volunteer force at the school. Anyway, from a parent of one of the kids not in the talkfest, I thank you, as I know you'll jump right in there, but there will likely be a lot of parents who won't. When these problems aren't dealt with effectively, the ramifications on education can be profound. [/QUOTE]
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