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Originally Posted by Martina
It stands for Special Day Class. It is used for kids who spend more than fifty percent of the day in self-contained special education classes. RSP -- Resource kids -- spend less than fifty percent of their time in self-contained (all Special Ed) classes. Often they just have a support class or two.
SDC students sometimes have more or more serious learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, or lower IQ. Sometimes their not that serious learning disabilities have been neglected and they just ended up many grade levels behind. But they are not ID (Intellectually Disabled or Mentally Retarded). For whatever reason or reasons, it is hard for SDC students to succeed in school.
More districts are trying to include SDC students in General Ed classes for more of the day. It is good for them socially -- most of them -- but most districts do not have the resources to do it successfully and SDC kids start flunking out. Great idea, but so hard to do in schools with large class sizes and stressed to the max teachers.
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Thank you. We don't use that terminology. We code by numbers. Same reporting requirements. In our district, we commit a significant amount of funds to inclusion support and co-teaching. Even at the high school level, I have inclusion teachers in every content area class. We use as little resource as possible. Our kids are more successful on state standards if they stay in the general education setting. All our resource teachers are also highly qualified in special ed and the content area they teach. We have dramatically increased the rigor and relevance of the instruction for all of our students but continue to put necessary supports in place. I also have a dedicated and competent behavioral support team who works diligently to build resilience for our kids with ed. When we have to go more restrictive, we have an award winning campus which includes a therapeutic milieu so that we can keep kids out of .hospitalization. Can you tell I love my job and my district?