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Who is really teaching your special education child?
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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 454522" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>I sound more than a bit jaded on some subjects but isn't there a specific $$ amount on each special students head that comes into the District...or is it to the specific school? I know for sure that is true with gifted students as easy child/difficult child had a full time gifted class in 7th grade with a dynamic accredited teacher. In the 8th grade they had one period of gifted education and when he got to 9th grade it was downgraded to "all gifted students will have a weekly lunchtime meeting so any problems can be addressed". The "accomodation" in high school was that <strong>one</strong> special class was available to gifted students during the year of their choice...if they chose to attend.That is not why easy child/difficult child got off track (I'm not blaming the school system) but I know the school got extra bucks and wrote dumb IEP's to keep it coming.</p><p></p><p>Maybe...just maybe...many areas see the $$'s and therefore write the IEP's but don't really accomodate the children in need. What JH said from her teaching experiences is often true around here too. Full classrooms of standard students and one major difficult child is just plain wrong. In our area they often just send "Officer Friendly" to take the difficult child to the office for "a good talking to". WTH! </p><p></p><p>And since I'm in vent mode on this subject, Florida started the Lottery years ago for education. Then..you guessed it, the State cut back the educational budget to offset the gain. Geez Louise. Florida is not 48th in education. What a surprise! End of vent. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 454522, member: 35"] I sound more than a bit jaded on some subjects but isn't there a specific $$ amount on each special students head that comes into the District...or is it to the specific school? I know for sure that is true with gifted students as easy child/difficult child had a full time gifted class in 7th grade with a dynamic accredited teacher. In the 8th grade they had one period of gifted education and when he got to 9th grade it was downgraded to "all gifted students will have a weekly lunchtime meeting so any problems can be addressed". The "accomodation" in high school was that [B]one[/B] special class was available to gifted students during the year of their choice...if they chose to attend.That is not why easy child/difficult child got off track (I'm not blaming the school system) but I know the school got extra bucks and wrote dumb IEP's to keep it coming. Maybe...just maybe...many areas see the $$'s and therefore write the IEP's but don't really accomodate the children in need. What JH said from her teaching experiences is often true around here too. Full classrooms of standard students and one major difficult child is just plain wrong. In our area they often just send "Officer Friendly" to take the difficult child to the office for "a good talking to". WTH! And since I'm in vent mode on this subject, Florida started the Lottery years ago for education. Then..you guessed it, the State cut back the educational budget to offset the gain. Geez Louise. Florida is not 48th in education. What a surprise! End of vent. DDD [/QUOTE]
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