I have a difficult time supporting the idea that students who have behavior plans for hurting others should be in the gen. ed. classroom. While remediation and support is necessary, chidren who are constantly a threat to the safety of others, including teachers, do not belong in a regular education classroom. All children should be safe at school. How do you justify to a parent- that their son "Johnny" has been choked by the same student three times this year? ...And this child will remain in the same class/school? I have seen this process too many times. Doesn't school safety for the other students trump any sort of remediation for the dangerous student?
When we write plans that connect dangerous students to SPED (without learning problems) and label them ED, it makes it next to impossible to expell them and typically growth, if any, is small. Isn't every child who does something really terrible (like repeatedly throwing chairs, continuously hurting others) disturbed? Why do we write out plans- which end up really being excuses for their behavior? If students are a constant danger- get them out of the classroom with gen ed students and teachers! School should be safe. Any thoughts?
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The presentation oin this was good- I have a difficult time with the practice.
I wrestle with these ideas myself. But how easy do you want it to be to expel and eight year old? When mission statements express the belief that all students can learn, do we exclude the belief that all students, even those with disabilities, can learn to behave?
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