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Posted on 8/28/09

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I teach in GA and we are phasing out resource rooms and
departmentalized special ed (content area classes taught by
SPED teacher to all SPED kids w/ a parapro). My district
claims that we are mandated to have 80 something % of SPED
students in general ed classes. So they have created tons
of inclusion classes and put everyone except in these
classes except for severally disabled students. This is
insane. I have taught inclusion classes before in NY and it
was wonderful. THis is because we placed students there who
would be successful in that environment. For example, in
GA, I have a ninth grade student with an IQ of 55, who is a
non-reader in an inclusion geography class. She is expected
to do everything everyone else does...I can't take her out
of the room to test (supposedly this is illegal in GA).I
could go on and on about this. My question is do schools in
OH still have resource rooms or departmentalized SPED?
Sorry about the rambling, but I'm frustrated down here.

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