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By NM

I am a LD teacher, and it sounds to me as if the problem isn't the students, it is the teacher. I myself do not have the luxery of only having to make up ONE lesson plan to accomadate all my students. Yes, I choose to
be a LD teacher, and your letter is the reason why. In my experience, "regular classroom teachers" want to put any student that they find difficult in a resourse room, whether they need to be there or not. Children need to have contact with their peers. They need to be able to feel as if they are a part of the "regular" world. If it were up to you, all people who had any difficulties in

anything would be segregated from the rest of the world. I think you need to take a look at yourself as a teacher instead of blaming the "mainstreamed special education students." Mainstreaming DOES work, as long as teachers like you stop blaming their problems on the students that they can not control. You need to wake up and smell the roses. If you have a difficult child that misbehaves in your classroom, maybe they don't in any other classroom. Have you ever thought, that YOU might be the problem. It is that narrow-mindedness that we as teachers need to overcome if we are to help ALL students, not just the "mainstreamed special education students."