“The Students Have Little to No Support in The Regular Classroom; They Cannot Cope.”

Integration of students with special needs isn’t working, because the students have little to no support in the regular classroom; they cannot cope. One special education teacher can’t be in 8 classrooms at once, so the children each receive very few minutes of extra help. We used to give targeted help to small groups of students, pulled from several regular classes at the same time, which was far more effective.

To make matters worse, the school board seems to be constantly directing us to test these students to collect data, write increasingly lengthy reports about them, and attend multiple meetings to discuss them, instead of having the time to actually work with the kids who are struggling.

– Toronto Teacher