I have given you a lot of information over the last three posts regarding the Least Restrictive Environment. Within each of those, there have been details which could be expounded upon for multiple posts.
Here is the most important thing that I want you to gather from all of the information I have shared with you on LRE:
Special Education is NOT a place. It is a combination of services, supports, instruction, modifications, people, and resources designed to help your child with special needs access the regular curriculum in the way that BEST meets his or her needs.
The question should not be "where should the special needs child be placed?"
Rather, the IEP team needs to ask, "How can we best enable this child to access the curriculum in the general education setting."
The question is how can this child be taught in the classroom alongside typical peers; not whether or not it is possible.
Only after all options and supports have been implemented and exhausted should removal from the general education setting be considered. Being taught in the typical classroom is a right, not a privilege to be earned.
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