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Originally Posted by photon
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.
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Seems to me you're talking from personal experience. I've honestly never had to deal with students with learning disabilities, and when I think back on most of my 'classes'.....the majority of the students were just fine. Except for the lazy and uninterested part.
I don't really think its my place to state how kids with learning disabilities should be taught. If it requires 'normal'.....then I'm all for as normal as possible. Seems to me this perhaps requires a normal sized class(25-30 kids)...but with extra help, such as an aide or something.
Which doesn't go against my point that class sizes don't need to be reduced in order to 'better' the education of most kids. You're obviously talking about 'normal' interaction which I could see as being extremely beneficial for a child with learning disabilities.
The original point I had a problem with was when MMF said that large class sizes lead to kids dropping out before they graduate.