Do you think Special Ed' kids should go to normal classrooms and be taught normal things and be challenged???

Question

Well i think so. I see that the Special Ed' kids are being treated liek they don't kow anything. THey should be taught what everyone else is taught and go to a normal classroom and should get challenged.

Answer 1

Yes I feel they should be 'challenged'. But not at the level of the regular kids. They need to be challenged at a level that they can understand. They are treated like they don't know anything is because the schools won't follow the laws and teach them in the way that they are entitled to by law.
Even though each child and each case is different, the schools are 'suppose' to follow special education laws called IDEA. And part of this law states that children who are in special ed are suppose to recieve services in the 'least restrictive environment'. This means, the child is first suppose to be in a regular class with the proper services. If this doesn't work then the child needs to be in a special ed class. There has been some debate as to whether this is a good idea because some special ed students are 'disruptive' in class and keep the other children from recieving a 'free and appropriate education'.

Answer 2

Usually, the children with more severe levels of learning difficulties will go to a special-ed school. If they can access some of the mainstream curriculum, they might be placed in a mainstream school, like the boy I work with. He has Asperger's (he's on the ASD spectrum - Autism Spectrum Disorder). An IEP is something that many children have, if they have learning difficulties, whether they're very severe or quite mild. Some children will have an IEP because they have dyslexia, a relatively mild disorder. It stands for Individual Education Plan, so it's tailored to the child's individual needs. Don't feel stupid, at least you were curious enough to ask about it. Most people are very naive about special education too, but they don't care enough to ask.

Answer 3

Integrating children with special needs into "general education" classrooms is designed to assist the child with special needs to adapt to a more social less structured environment. It is indeed used to challenge the student with special needs although integrating a child with specail needs too quickly can have adverse consequences to the academic progress of the child being integrated, it should be done with collaboration between all members of the IEP team and especially with the general education teacher and the special eductaion teacher. Calling the Classroom "normal" is also not good for the child with special needs it can make them feel bad about themselves, and cause them to think that they are not "normal" and can make this transition even harder for the student.

Nathan Miller
M.S. Ed

Answer 4

As a special education teacher, I am conflicted about inclusion of special needs students in regular education classes. I think that it should be taken on a case-by-case basis. Most special education students look "normal" and have more minor disabilities such as dyslexia or ADD and fit very well in a regular education class. Only the teacher, the student and a special education teacher need to know the student may have some accommodations in the regular education setting.

Students with severe physical disabilities are often left out of the regular education class simply because they "look disabled" and often have very acute academic abilities, even if they are unable to write or read aloud. Other students with severe mental and physical disabilities are best served in a classroom where they can be looked after continually.

However, regular education students benefit from learning to appropriately socialize with students with disabilities and treat them with compassion and understanding instead of being afraid of them.

Answer 5

wow there s some good answers there.my child just turned 3& will be starting a program @ school for special 3 yr olds.he has downs syndrome & is doing well beyond my expectations.he will be in a regular setting 4 sure until he is 7.then he'll be re-evaluated.i hope he will do good enough to continue w/ his peers.i donot want him in a special room if he is the highest functioning student.i see no progress in that way.he has a lot of potential,i hope i make the best choices for him -i have lost a lot of sleep worring about his education-amoung other things.i definitly think it should be on case by case situation.i plan on being informed & maybe even doing a little teaching@ home- thank you 4 asking-you dont see a lot of special education Q's being ask -why some people pick the special education box i dunno some Q's are way off base from this subject

Answer 6

Will I do think so. but there is some out there that can't be challeneged. Because maybe they can't catch on quickly. I was in speacial classes but they made me go to the other classes and I was challenged a lot but I made it throught High school and graduated!! So don't put down special ED kids it's not nice how would u like it if someone told you that you needed to chanenged?

Answer 7

The purpose of Least Restrictive Environment is to do just that.

Pull-out programming, in a correctly run special education department, is only used for disability-specific instruction, with the goal of gradual movement of the student back into the regular ed classroom as soon as possible.

http://www.lrecoalition.org/

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/lre.index.htm


Unfortunately, districts make most decisions based on staffing, funding, and existing program availability, combined with regular ed teacher lack of training in multi-tasking instructional methods and best practices for disabilities... so they try to place kids out of the regular ed class as much as possible.

Parent advocacy is what makes good programming really happen, including appropriate balance between specialized instruction through self-contained or pull-out/Resource and exposure to grade-level content in the regular ed class.

Answer 8

Normal classrooms and be challenged - YES, but putting them n the classroom with "normal" children is a diservice to both. Special Needs are called that for a reason and a teacher with 2 other students who arent would loose alot of her time and attention to the "special needs" children. Not all teachers are qualified for those situation either. With that said they should still be treated as the other children are and not pushed to the side. My childrens school does an exceptional job with theirs and have highly qualified teachers to deal with them.

Answer 9

I think so too. The human brain is still not fully understand in the medical fields. I think that if you or any people that are challenged could still learn. Most of the Special Ed's kids at my school would do the same projects over and over. Cut and Past, and color.

Answer 10

Ideally that would be nice if everyone could be together, but it's not fair to the students who are move faster.
Where I went to school they broke things down by individual classes, that is I went a mixture of advanced, normal, and remedial classes depending upon my strength in each individual subject. I think that's a good way to organize things, but of course not all schools have the resources to do that.