Do you all know if the local cemeteries are doing flag placement on veteran headstones for Memorial Day? I have found the sign up for the event at the Willamette National Cemetery, but we would love to join something closer to home.
I am teaching in an elementary EBD (emotional or behavior disorders) classroom this year. This article has made the echoing voices in my head much louder. I cannot imagine sending at least 75% of my students to their gen-ed spaces without an aide and a solid plan for immediate removal if it goes wrong. I cannot go with each child to work on regulatory strategies in real time. I can only address those in my room, and it is a slow, slow process.
Sometimes I feel incredibly guilty that I am segregating kids who already have a great deal of trauma away from their peers. I have watched academic skills decrease from being close to grade level to being behind because we are so busy managing behavior. That does not set them up for success in the future.
At the same time, I cannot expect a teacher who already has 30 other kids to teach while my EBD kids (who usually also have ADHD,Autism with PDA, cognitive delays from abuse or prenatal distress, etc) are flipping tables or running screaming around the room. We do not have enough aides to be able to send one person to each gen-ed room they go to. There is not one chance that funding will become available to do so.
In addition to that, the kids really *do* do better in a much smaller, more controlled space.
I don't know what the right answer is. Is there a right answer? Is there a moral answer?