I've not even started teaching yet and I've already got a real curveball! "Inclusion" is a special education term used to describe the process of providing special education students with the "least restrictive environment." This typically means that a special education student attends a "typical" class.
TN classrooms(and probably others) have found a way to circumvent this by dumping all of the special education students in a grade into one class. Teachers call this the "inclusion class." I find this practice totally abhorrent, as it is clearly a way to circumvent a law designed to help students.
Here's the curveball: of the 24 students in my class, 17 are special education.
It's not that I dread kids with special needs- doesn't bother me. It's just that there are people out there with an education in "special education" who might be a little better qualified than me to deal with this class.
So now I have two education assistants under me. So now I get to try my damnedest to be in charge of two grown men or women with no education, who I'm afraid will give me the "what do you know you are 24 and you don't have any kids" attitude.
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