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Originally Posted by Torture
And the ATA proposal looks entirely reasonable with a phased approach to reasonable classroom sizes. What parent wouldn't support that?
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I acknowledge my bias, as my wife is currently in the final phases of completing her education degree to teach in the schools. Also with 2 kids (who have IPP's and learning disabilities and are coded as such) in the system currently and not able to access the supports they need in school. In my daughter's case she's in grade 9 and uses a wheelchair frequently due to a physical disability we've tried to say hey she needs some accommodations in Phys Ed, and the response is well there is 40 kids in her gym class, and 40+ kids in each other gym class so not much we can do other than let her go to the office and write papers instead. If the school was able to actually hire more support staff, maybe she could actually participate in Phys ed with the appropriate accommodations. But if I try to hide my bias, I'm not seeing anything there in the teachers offer on classroom complexities that is unreasonable. Only thing that seems unreasonable is that seemingly the Government is refusing to even look at or, respond to it. It comes across that they're just like well we don't really care, would prefer your kids are in private schools, and we'll just force them back to work. I did enjoy the "strong and free" reference in the ATA's reply though!