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Originally Posted by Azure
Because like I said a normal classroom is usually 1 teacher, x amount of students.
That is normal to me, and probably normal to most kids. I don't ever recall having teacher aids, unless it was in the earlier years. Granted, a small-town school doesn't have the resources either for more teachers so we made do.
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I remember seeing a few, but there were kids in the classes that needed them, and I was in a 250 kid K-12 school for a while. That was in SK though.
Now it really just depends on what's required, in the school we're moving into they have a few aides that work with all the classes as there's no kid that requires a full time aide. For my kid's move it looks like they're hiring someone to add to their pool of aides to accommodate him.
But just because your idea of a normal classroom is 1 teacher x kids, or that the standard classroom is that, doesn't mean that that's the way it should be. There's good reasons for those kids to be in "normal" classrooms associating with "normal" kids. The biggest one being that constantly marginalizing a child because he isn't "normal" just compounds the problems associated with not being typical.