[Sungirl]

What? They pay them $250 a day to do what? Babysit? What does the teacher do? What a waste. DO the taxpayers know about that??
THis kid needs to be in a special school...he must be disruptive to the other kids.
If I was one of these other parents, I'd be mad that this kid was causing problems and interrupting school classrooms.

[DainBramage]

Its worse than that, this child, and I think two others, have their own room and teacher...and fireman. He told me all they do is play board games and talk. During the summer they take him to the mall and the park. The fireman has begun to get attached to the child, and says he's very bright sometimes, but not often, and he gets violent occcasionally. 250$ is twice what the teachers make.

These reasoning behind the extra help is that the teachers can get hurt if the kids go nuts and jump them. The firemen had to go through a week of training and they showed them tapes of how the kids can hurt themselves and teachers.

[Illbay]

What does the teacher do?

Sungirl, what would you THINK the teacher would be doing? What if you had, say, 20 students in a classroom, and one student was requiring 50% or more of your time? And there was nothing you could do because the some federal judge somewhere declared that this student was "entitled" to mainstream classroom education?

Yes, you would welcome a "babysitter" so that you could attend to the other 19 kids.

Teachers have the most thankless job in our society, IMO.