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Child is Disrupting My Class – What Can I Do?

07/22/10
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I am a general education teacher. One of my students, who has an IEP, interrupts class several times a day.  It is not uncommon for him to blurt out on-  and off-topic comments, or start singing, or get up and leave the room. I have been told that there is nothing the school can do […]

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Special Education: NOT the Resource Room, the Classroom in the Trailer, or the Special School Across Town

05/03/10
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Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms? “Special education” under IDEA is not a place or placement or a pre-packaged program. Special education is a “service for children rather than a place where such children are sent.” Special education is […]

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