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Inclusion
By Gina TX

I have two very high needs inclusion classes this year. I teach 6th grade Science and Social Studies. I have three blocks of Science. One has no inclusion, we get to do lots of fun things. The other two....I think are
unfair to the students that are not specail needs that are in there. To be fair, some of my inclusion kids are pretty high performing, but some are so low that it brings down the rest of my class. It has to. I haven't found a way around it. I have an inclusion teacher that comes in and helps, but...in one block I have 8 inclusion kids and the other has 12. Some of these need one on

one attention. That's not possible when there is twelve and what about the other 15-16 kids in the class. They are really missing out. I had a meeting about one of the kids with the sped dept. because he is just too low to be in inclusion and was basically told that the state wants the number of sped kids reduced and they would not be putting anyone back into resource classes. I guess it doesn't matter what's best for the kid or what's best for the rest of the class. Forget what's best for my sanity. It must be what's best for the state. I'm sure it has to do with funding. :mad: