
It sounds good on paper: your child with special learning needs in a mainstream classroom will get specialized help a few days a week from a special education teacher to reinforce concepts learned and help him or her keep up with the classwork. Maybe you’ve been a little concerned about how your child will make a leap from self-contained to inclusion, and this seems like the best of both worlds. Maybe a place to struggle with hard concepts without mainstream peers looking on sounds like a good idea. And maybe it will be. Different things work for different kids, and…