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Schools are not designed to calculate the actual cost on a per student basis.

Big ticket items like a dedicated SPED department, or a professional working 1:1 with a student can be accounted for. But if a special needs child participates in a standard class (which they do) and the standard teacher needs to do more than average work to accommodate them; that cost is not earmarked for that specific student. Once the bean counters see it, it is just "teacher salary", which gets averaged out across all the students.





You are correct.

I only read up on the 'impact' part of the study's claim, not the 'lower cost' part. I thought you were talking about the impact part.

The cost part is obviously suspect, for the reason you stated. It is so obviously suspect that I had subconsciously 'tuned it out'!




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