Conflicts

What are the conflicts with Response to Intervention?  One criticism of Response to Intervention is that there is limiting access to special education services. Not every student can be tested for special education programs due to lack in funding. Regular students should not be left behind but at the same time, the students that need extra support should be put forth for further interventions. Also, this type of intervention puts an enormous amount of pressure onto the teachers to make sure that they have done everything possible in the classroom before the child can be assessed. The assessment and classification of a single student can be unreasonably delayed with each new year the student receives a new teacher. Each teacher must go through a new RTI process and look back on previous teachers in order to make a specific assessment for the individual. Another conflict arises with the involvement of other students who are not struggling. Some parents and other teachers feel that students who are doing well in school are often forgot about because they are "doing well" in their academic levels. An effective RTI framework consists of all students receiving high-quality instruction that is aligned to a state's academic standards and benchmarks. This allows teachers and parents to be confident that a student's need for more intensive intervention is not due to ineffective classroom instruction. In a well designed RTI system, the curriculum should be effective and sufficient for about 80% of the student population.



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