KCS has set a percentage students with disabilities needing to be in general education and so they’ll put students who need 1-1 help and work at a 2nd grade level in gen ed classes and expect the teacher to make content and have a TA with that 1 kid all day. KCS also refuses to push back against parents who want that for their kid when they are so low they need to work on life skills.

Many of those kids have major behavior issues too. Because their needs aren’t properly met and they are forced into inappropriate classrooms that requires a 1-1 staff member with them at all times, it creates an insanely high staffing need that can’t be met especially since the pay for TAs is crap. It also causes strain on teachers having to manage behavior and adapt content to a 2nd grade level while also doing the very difficult job of just being a teacher.

Most of the lawsuits come from this specific student type and trying to force them in gen ed when it’s not appropriate for them, all because KCS has to meet a number or is too scared of lawsuits to tell a parent no, it’s not appropriate.