People who aren’t in education have no idea how bad things are. Special Ed/IEP students have first call on a district’s resources. If regular classroom teachers have to be let go to provide for the special ed kid’s needs, so be it. The law requires that they be educated in the least restrictive way possible. That means they have to be in the regular classroom as much as possible, no matter how disruptive they are. Tourette’s syndrome where they shout whatever comes to mind—too bad. Oppositional Defiance Disorder, where they don’t like to do what they’re told, you have to cope with it. The fact that none of the normal kids in the class have a prayer of learning anything is beside the point. The IEP kids come first.
Good luck. Hope you find a better state!
Yep. And I'm pretty sure it has to do with litigious parents. I've met a couple. We had an autistic boy that freaked out and got violent, more than once. And he was 14 and getting tall. It was bad. I'm so relieved to be getting out. It's a mad house.