The evidence for inclusion may not be so good. A new paper explains why. ##education##teachersoftiktok##learning##sped##inclusion

YES! The I in IEP means INDIVIDUALIZED not cookie cutter inclusion. Let’s bring back the I, but it will co$t some money!! Money is the same reason we stopped retaining students too. It’s a business not really about student growth or education at all!!!

Thank you. I had a nonverbal, violent 95-pound kindergartener with severe autism in a class of 36 gen-ed students back in the 80s. He battered his full-time aide and the other students, destroyed the classroom on a daily basis, and eloped off campus multiple times. His mother wanted “LRE” to be the gen-ed classroom because she believed that he would become typical if he was around typical children. He did not show any benefit, but the learning environment was destroyed for the other 35 children. It was not the correct placement for him.

Hence the continued need for a CONTINUUM of services. I wish the term “least restrictive” environment could be rebranded as “most supportive” environment.

I was a new teacher when I went to my first iep meeting as the inclusion teacher and the principal is telling the parent that there will be a special ed teacher always present to support their student. Well that turned out to be a lie, it was only 1.5 hrs on a good day.

I've been told by the ID self-contained teacher and the SPED dept chair that our principal is considering getting rid of the ID classroom. (Apparently our state DOE is getting rid of the ID alternative assessment and they'll have to take the state assessment like everyone else. It already baffles me that they take a modified academic assessment instead of a strictly functional one, but whatever.) Yeah, let's throw kids with a 70 IQ who can barely read with on-grade-level students and expect the already-overwhelmed teacher to differentiate for all of that. 🙄 Personally, I'd love to have 1-2 self-contained SLD classes that I could run my way, but that's not gonna happen anytime soon, either. #grrr

Inclusion came out as a way to have all students participate in a typical classroom. Simultaneously while the government was withdrawing special education support . So what ended up happening is government schools were removing funding support for special education classrooms … well, then pushing for inclusion irrespective of whether it was fitting the needs of those student students within individual education plans.. You’re now hard-pressed to find classrooms in schools that are separate from the mainstream classroom to provide kids the required level of support that they need .

Like most things in education it's about how the tool is used not the tool itself. The tool or method itself is peddled as a panacea because non experts can't handle nuance.

It’s surprising how many very obviously bad pedagogical practices and theories have been implemented with no evidence and are simply continued despite mountain of data showing their harm.

Only politicians think inclusion is a good thing. We as teachers know it’s a failing process. We see it every day in our classrooms

Could you write the reference of this paper, please @eduleadership?