Reply #32: It's a mess and we will just hear more stories like this

[proud2BlibKansan]

until they change something. Sounds like this kid didn't belong in a regular kindergarten. But they are mainstreaming nearly every special needs kids these days. I used to teach self-contained and they switched me to resource and put all my kids in regular classrooms. I pull them out for special ed but they are in regular ed much longer than they used to be.

But what is worse is this cross categorical model. I am an LD teacher with a masters degree in LD. Yet now I have kids with mental retardation, kids with mental illness and this week, they sent me a kid who is hearing impaired. My district has never offered me any training even though I have asked every year since they started this cross categorical model. So I will admit I really don't know how to teach all the kids I have been assigned. It is very frustrating; it's like asking a pediatrician to do heart surgery.