FYI ping.
“His parents believe Schiltz and other teachers there are ill-prepared to handle special needs students.”
Yep, that would be about right. As a teacher myself, and one who has a severe autistic student in my own regular ed. classroom for an hour a day, I AM NOT qualified to work with this child. Secondly, this child should NOT even be placed in a regular ed. classroom where he sings Christmas songs, makes noises or pretends he is other people and animals (he can’t distinquish fantasy from reality), etc. You better believe his behavior impacts the learning of the other 25 regular ed. kids. NOT RIGHT and I have no choice as the child’s parents have a lawyer on speed dial just in case our school district doesn’t comply with the parents’ demands.