The new b.s coming out of camp crazy is they want the good students to help the "bad" or emotionally disturbed kids. Soooooo all the classes where rearranged so that all the little ****s were mixed in with the good kids. My son routinely complains that half the teachers day is spent chasing kids around instead of teaching. Parents complain and want these kids to be placed in a special class.... nope its not fair to label said kids
Hello; Unfortunately this is not a new concept among the "professional education experts" . At least two decades + ago this sort of notion was in vogue among the higher ups in the states where I taught. Turns out not to have been too bad with many of the special Ed students as few of them were trouble makers. There were some potentially bad situations with students with a physical handicap that the bosses did not want to acknowledge. I will give an example later.
The worst for me as a teacher was the deliberate spread out placement of trouble maker students into all classes. That way each of my classes had a few unruly students so the disruptions went on pretty much every day and all day long.
At faculty meetings I suggested several times that we put the proven trouble makers into one group (class). That way each teacher would only have to babysit them in one class a day with the other five classes being allowed to calm enough for actual education to happen. I was told such a thing would be against the "rights" of those students and that the good students would "bring up" the behavior of the rowdy students.
I asked about the rights of the well behaved students to have an opportunity for a proper education but cannot tell you what the answer might have been as the bosses never gave me a clear answer.
Back too the handicapped student issue. At one high school I taught on the second floor. It was a big school with maybe 1200 to 1500 students. During evacuation drills there were only two stairwells at each end of the school. Not a problem as the stairs were plenty wide enough. My class room was to go down one stairs. Turns out there was a student with serious mobility issues. He had to use two crutches and moved slowly. Not his fault of course but during drills he pretty much blocked dozens of students as he slowly made his way down the stairs. Really slowed down the evacuation.
In a faculty meeting I pointed this safety issue out and suggested perhaps he have classes only on the ground floor. Seems his right for inclusion was more important than a potential safety issue. I then suggested that perhaps a couple of us stout male teachers be assigned to carry him down the stairs. Seems that would do something to his dignity.
