Putting Students First Community Engagement Events

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Crickets who do all that you listed and end up with a child behind years and needing remediation to go to college. Why don't you pull up the numbers for what happens when MCPS children graduate. The data doesn't lie.

+1 MSDE and OCR have open cases before them for discrimination and retaliation against students and families. Letters of Findings are being handed down and Resolution Agreements have been signed by MCPS for violations that students are deserving of remediation. Many students have waited two schools years for remedies and MCPS is still dragging its feet with compliance.

Current Pending OCR Cases: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/open-investigations/index.html

* search by protected class and state

The Letters of Findings and Resolution Agreements are accessible with a FOIA request.

These are data points to show how little MCPS puts students first and how they discriminate against students. The deceptive practices and retaliation families have experienced will cause these crickets to complain till MCPS becomes compliant.

I guess MCPS needs to hire a bunch more central office staff.

Quite the opposite. More staff is needed at the school level. More general ed teachers, special ed teachers, counselors, school psychologists, para educators, occupational therapists, speech therapists, etc. Training for issues around non-compliance would be helpful to prevent future violations.

MCPS wants to fight families with their unlimited supply of attorneys. Under Dr. McKnight, MCPS is sending in attorneys for IEP/504 meetings to discuss compensatory services in situations where families are unequally represented. This fight, retaliate, and deny strategic plan is the opposite of putting students first and drags distrust in MCPS to a whole new low.

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Crickets who do all that you listed and end up with a child behind years and needing remediation to go to college. Why don't you pull up the numbers for what happens when MCPS children graduate. The data doesn't lie.

+1 MSDE and OCR have open cases before them for discrimination and retaliation against students and families. Letters of Findings are being handed down and Resolution Agreements have been signed by MCPS for violations that students are deserving of remediation. Many students have waited two schools years for remedies and MCPS is still dragging its feet with compliance.

Current Pending OCR Cases: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/open-investigations/index.html

* search by protected class and state

The Letters of Findings and Resolution Agreements are accessible with a FOIA request.

These are data points to show how little MCPS puts students first and how they discriminate against students. The deceptive practices and retaliation families have experienced will cause these crickets to complain till MCPS becomes compliant.

FY 2022 MSDE Letters of Findings are published online. The letters are public information with the identity of the student redacted.

This is an example of one such letter of findings with multiple violations that indicate MCPS has more than just a few bad apples discriminating against students with disabilities. If you notice, Dr. McKnight is cc'd on the letter:

https://marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Documents/Special-Ed/FSDR/ComplaintLetters/2022/1/22-012MCPS.pdf

[Anonymous]

The boe incumbents UNANIMOUSLY voted for this type of MCPS response. They ALL need to be fired. Please get the word out to other parents and remember this during the upcoming board of education election.

And remember, you can vote for boe members that are NOT part of your own district, so make sure you vote for ALL openings. This is how the current board maintains power and vote their preferred candidates into other district positions - especially if they campaign in Silver Spring for votes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

She's done way more than that with the covid funding. Maryland really doesn't seem to care about corrupt politicians?

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Anonymous wrote:She’s just building her image, OP. She wants to be seen as close to the families she serves. A photo of her talking to families, a little buzz and press coverage, and she’s in clover.
Unless the meetings turn contentious, and the media stories are about how communities are unhappy with her…

Sounds like she is close to families and is putting students first. Why are you so threatened by her?

DP. I'm not the person you're asking this to, but I do think she's a terrible administrator and needs to be removed. I think she doesn't care about MCPS or kids, just her own career.

1. I read she doesn't live in the county or send her kids to MCPS. During the school shooting, the police had to escort her through traffic for a press conference while anxious parents and busses waited to let kids out of the school.
2. January's covid response was a total disaster. Instead of preparing, she made YouTube videos about what her favorite subject in school was or cafeteria lunch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbZjpank-s0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yWDfS2p9g). The 31 schools shut down in January weren't even the ones with the most serious covid infections. MCPS replaced metrics so that in just 15 instructional days in January, 2100+ staff and 9%+ of the student body were infected. There was a data suppression rule that was never explained, and the metrics were changed again (daily reporting stopped on March 1st) to obfuscate any covid issues using a 10-day-window metric instead of daily totals (ex. the 40'ish infected at Whitman HS).
3. January covid bus driver losses were so bad they called the National Guard to try to bus kids in.
https://wjla.com/news/local/montgomery-co-200-national-guard-troops-school-bus-driver-shortage-marc-elrich-montgomery-county-public-schools-larry-hogan
4. She's had two no confidence votes by the MCEA while interim Superintendent and she was STILL confirmed by the MC BOE.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-co-public-schools-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-council-holding-emergency-session
5. This summer MCPS was a top-20 in open DoE OCR discrimination cases, so anything she's doing now is because she didn't look at her inbox.
6. How did MCPS spend $780K on bocci ball, $4M on diversity training, $2M on Kid Museum, when it was supposed to be covid money?
7. Hear anything about the $160M electric bus fiasco lately? https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10156263/investigation-prompts-leave-for-two-maryland-transportation-directors I would think that deserved some attention.

Since the MC BOE confirmed her knowing all of this tells you how deep this runs.

From the culture warriors' playbook: go after the organization, especially leadership, to sow doubt and uncertainty. Whether from Moscow, Idaho or Moscow, Russia, Fredericksburg or Saint Petersburg, trolls gonna troll.

From the same playbooks - once you have inserted a divisive and incompetent leader who will create division and discord, keep them in place. The harm they inflict upon the organization will take years to undo and correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The boe incumbents UNANIMOUSLY voted for this type of MCPS response. They ALL need to be fired. Please get the word out to other parents and remember this during the upcoming board of education election.

And remember, you can vote for boe members that are NOT part of your own district, so make sure you vote for ALL openings. This is how the current board maintains power and vote their preferred candidates into other district positions - especially if they campaign in Silver Spring for votes.

I'm sorry, what's wrong with campaigning in Silver Spring for votes? It's one of the more populated areas of the county, so anyone running in a countywide election should probably be campaigning there.

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

Do you know who else seems to post more? Right-wing astroturfers who love nothing more than getting people riled up over culture wars and misinformation. You can be sure one of them is posting when it starts off with something like "although I'm a moderate democrat BUT..."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

She's done way more than that with the covid funding. Maryland really doesn't seem to care about corrupt politicians?

The unhinged McKnight stalker is back!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The boe incumbents UNANIMOUSLY voted for this type of MCPS response. They ALL need to be fired. Please get the word out to other parents and remember this during the upcoming board of education election.

And remember, you can vote for boe members that are NOT part of your own district, so make sure you vote for ALL openings. This is how the current board maintains power and vote their preferred candidates into other district positions - especially if they campaign in Silver Spring for votes.

I'm sorry, what's wrong with campaigning in Silver Spring for votes? It's one of the more populated areas of the county, so anyone running in a countywide election should probably be campaigning there.

A district representative is supposed to represent, oh, I don't know - maybe their own district?

Shows just how corrupt the system is. Win in Silver Spring and it really doesn't matter what the rest of the County thinks.

District boe reps should not only live in their own district, but only be voted for by their own district! That's what makes them a "representative" - they actually represent their constituency?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The boe incumbents UNANIMOUSLY voted for this type of MCPS response. They ALL need to be fired. Please get the word out to other parents and remember this during the upcoming board of education election.

And remember, you can vote for boe members that are NOT part of your own district, so make sure you vote for ALL openings. This is how the current board maintains power and vote their preferred candidates into other district positions - especially if they campaign in Silver Spring for votes.

I'm sorry, what's wrong with campaigning in Silver Spring for votes? It's one of the more populated areas of the county, so anyone running in a countywide election should probably be campaigning there.

A district representative is supposed to represent, oh, I don't know - maybe their own district?

Shows just how corrupt the system is. Win in Silver Spring and it really doesn't matter what the rest of the County thinks.

District boe reps should not only live in their own district, but only be voted for by their own district! That's what makes them a "representative" - they actually represent their constituency?

No, BOE members' constituents are residents across the whole county, not only the district in which they reside. The districts are there to ensure that members live in different areas of the county, but when serving on the BOE they need to take into account the whole spectrum of the county's needs, not just those affecting their own neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The boe incumbents UNANIMOUSLY voted for this type of MCPS response. They ALL need to be fired. Please get the word out to other parents and remember this during the upcoming board of education election.

And remember, you can vote for boe members that are NOT part of your own district, so make sure you vote for ALL openings. This is how the current board maintains power and vote their preferred candidates into other district positions - especially if they campaign in Silver Spring for votes.

I'm sorry, what's wrong with campaigning in Silver Spring for votes? It's one of the more populated areas of the county, so anyone running in a countywide election should probably be campaigning there.

A district representative is supposed to represent, oh, I don't know - maybe their own district?

Shows just how corrupt the system is. Win in Silver Spring and it really doesn't matter what the rest of the County thinks.

District boe reps should not only live in their own district, but only be voted for by their own district! That's what makes them a "representative" - they actually represent their constituency?

No, BOE members' constituents are residents across the whole county, not only the district in which they reside. The districts are there to ensure that members live in different areas of the county, but when serving on the BOE they need to take into account the whole spectrum of the county's needs, not just those affecting their own neighborhood.

Makes sense

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

Please give Q my regards!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Exactly, then they'll sock puppet a torrent of posts on their pet issue drowning out any dissent.

MCPS has paid staff that monitor and post on this forum. Dr. McKnight needs more staff for her propaganda campaign that she put a $500,000 contract in next year’s budget for a PR Firm. The only sock puppetry is MCPS posing as parents who love MCPS.

She's done way more than that with the covid funding. Maryland really doesn't seem to care about corrupt politicians?

Hey, Aggie tell everybody why the covid advisory team has been silenced.

The unhinged McKnight stalker is back!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lot of BS stuff about social emotional learning and nothing about how they are going to close the achievement gap and the learning loss.

plan is to lower the standards enough so that everyone can perform at same level. Highly abled need to slow down and chill out. not work so hard on subjects so that others can catch up.

This is a false narrative designed to sow seeds of dissent among different groups within MCPS. We need to collaborate as a community and work together to solve myriad issues within MCPS. The Princeton-bound kid is not suffering because another child is 15 and functionally illiterate. Both are important for the future of our community.

Agree sure I hear this all the time BUT my own kids have had many wonderful opportunities to achieve and be challenged. One had around 30 college credits from APs and the other is on track to do similarly.

We're also happy. Many just enjoy complaining, but in my experience, MCPS is made up of many teachers and administrators who have gone above and beyond to put kids first.

+1. This board would have you believing MCPS is horrible. Its not. Sure there are a few bad apples here and there but that would be true anywhere. Are there things that MCPS can improve upon, sure but this is true anywhere. Whats really needed is community engagement, support, and effort. But many just like engaging in complaint. Ask them to run for the school PTA, MCCPTA, attend community meetings about BOE and county council candidates, or do extra homework/practice with their kids and you’ll get crickets.

Crickets who do all that you listed and end up with a child behind years and needing remediation to go to college. Why don't you pull up the numbers for what happens when MCPS children graduate. The data doesn't lie.

+1 MSDE and OCR have open cases before them for discrimination and retaliation against students and families. Letters of Findings are being handed down and Resolution Agreements have been signed by MCPS for violations that students are deserving of remediation. Many students have waited two schools years for remedies and MCPS is still dragging its feet with compliance.

Current Pending OCR Cases: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/open-investigations/index.html

* search by protected class and state

The Letters of Findings and Resolution Agreements are accessible with a FOIA request.

These are data points to show how little MCPS puts students first and how they discriminate against students. The deceptive practices and retaliation families have experienced will cause these crickets to complain till MCPS becomes compliant.

I guess MCPS needs to hire a bunch more central office staff.

Quite the opposite. More staff is needed at the school level. More general ed teachers, special ed teachers, counselors, school psychologists, para educators, occupational therapists, speech therapists, etc. Training for issues around non-compliance would be helpful to prevent future violations.

MCPS wants to fight families with their unlimited supply of attorneys. Under Dr. McKnight, MCPS is sending in attorneys for IEP/504 meetings to discuss compensatory services in situations where families are unequally represented. This fight, retaliate, and deny strategic plan is the opposite of putting students first and drags distrust in MCPS to a whole new low.

I wonder if this is why anyone without a 504 gets ignored these days? Are these families demanding so much that there's nothing leftover for anyone else? Is there is no limit to their greed for attention that MCPS must hire lawyers to draw a line.