The HS years for SN kids

[madmomxyz]

Services brutal fir SN kids in middle and high school. If i could start over I would NEVER have exposed my kids to the horrific bullying. just my opinion

[Anonymous]

madmomxyz wrote:Services brutal fir SN kids in middle and high school. If i could start over I would NEVER have exposed my kids to the horrific bullying. just my opinion

Hi this is OP. PP can you clarify for me what you mean? How would avoid exposure to bullying? By not having an IEP? Or were you talking about a certain school in particular that you would avoid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We bought a house at the maximum we could afford in a highly sought out MCPS high school district before we had kids. We then had two kids with special needs.

The good news, our house has tripled in value since we bought it. The bad news, it has been very stressful at times trying to find the financial resources to pay for private tutors, advocates, lawyers, and testing services our children needed. Grandparents donated money at times just so we could stop fighting with MCPS and get privately what our children needed. I often wonder in a less sought out school cluster, would we have the same problems? Because of our zip code, we were often treated like "Well, you live in ----- so you must be able to afford to pay for xyz". Sometimes, school administrators would even us lists of private places to go for services or say I think your child has xyz but they need educational testing that the school can't do.

After attending support meetings with other SN parents, I think MCPS is broken throughout the county. You get what you can get, but you need to plan on having financial resources set aside for what your child will need but MCPS will not provide. This will be the case in whatever school cluster you move to.

Thanks for sharing your experience and for your input.

[Anonymous]

OP - it's hard not to worry, but try not to. Buy the house you want in a decent school district. Wooten is good, so are many others in MCPS.

I have two kids that are special needs. One is in public in a similar MCPS high school. He has been in public the whole time, has had lots of support from the school and we have paid for outside therapists, doctors, etc.

My other was also in public but it wasn't working and I pulled him out for private. Yes, I paid for us to live in good MCPS neighborhood but it didn't work for him. That's ok too - we decided we could afford it, we agreed it was the best thing and we moved him.

You just don't know - put yourself in a good spot where public is an option and you can see how it all works out with the many factors like your kid, you, your finances, options, etc.