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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I do think their should be a line somewhere. My younger son lost a huge amount of learning in grade 2 because a kid in the room was hugely disruptive. He regularly threw furniture. They were evacuated from their class room because he was acting out violently at least 25 times. He punched other kids, and when he wasn't acting out he'd sit at the back of the classroom loudly playing with toys he brought, which is also disruptive. This kid's teacher has either quit or taken a leave in grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3.
There's no way he should be in a regular classroom, because the disruption he does to the learning of 20+ other kids exceeds any possible benefit to himself.
Tldr: learning disability and need some extra help --> regular classroom is fine.
Consistently disrupting the learning of everyone else with violence --> you need something different
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Based on the anecdotes of some posters here, the problem seems to be that there isn't just one child with a manageable learning disability, but usually several...
Heck, in malcolmk14's case, 24 out of 28 students (86%!
) need some level of extra attention... Can you imagine the negative impact that has? And not just on the other 4 students, but all of them collectively. Like, if each student
only requires an extra minute of attention each day, that's still 2 hours of 'lost' instructional time each week... an entire instructional day every month... 2 full instructional weeks each school year.
That's ridiculous.