Originally Posted by Mana
Originally Posted by Val
The woman I spoke to admitted to me that "We don't take special ed. students. They are better-served in the other schools in this district."
mad
As painful as this sounds, at DD7's school every classroom has one or two kids that are in the room half-day with a dedicated para. These kids sometimes can do some of the work but DD complains that their artwork always comes out best because the para does it for them. Last year's special ed kid was nonverbal. Honestly, I would be disturbed by a high achieving/gifted magnet that did take these kids; the benefit of having them in the room at all seems to be purely to help them learn to mix socially in a mainstreamed society, and help the other kids react normally to severely disabled persons.

Not understanding the 2E concept is something else entirely.