Can A Child with Behavior Problems Survive in a Regular Classroom?
This issue is really getting to me lately. It seems I have several clients right now who have bright kids who are perfectly capable of doing well in a general education classroom but for their behavior problems. The schools I’m dealing with want to transfer the kids to special education classrooms which are exclusively for kids with “emotional or behavior disorders” – otherwise known as “EBD” classrooms. EBD is a new Florida acronym; kids used to be called “ED” – emotionally disordered. Florida “EBD” Classrooms In Florida EBD classrooms are generally “self-contained” that means that they have only special education students in them. Generally speaking, they have a reputation of being filled with boys with discipline problems (as opposed to kids with other kinds of behavior problems, such as distractibility or anxiety). At the very worst, some of the EBD classrooms are known for housing future or current juvenile delinquents – not a place anyone would want their kid to learn! Though a s
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