Can I keep my twins in the same classroom in MCPS?

[Anonymous]

I thought I saw years ago that a law was passed in MoCo allowing parents to keep their twins together in the same classroom (although the school's default is always to separate). But now I can't find that law online. Anyone know? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought I saw years ago that a law was passed in MoCo allowing parents to keep their twins together in the same classroom (although the school's default is always to separate). But now I can't find that law online. Anyone know? Thank you!

I haven't heard anything about it, but that would be weird law to pass for local government. Might be a school system policy at best, but doubtful. Likely it's at the discretion of the school itself. But again, this is just my uninformed opinion Working with the faculty would probably be most productive.

[Anonymous]

OP here -- I found it in case its helpful to anyone else:
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/education/title-7/subtitle-1/7-120/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- I found it in case its helpful to anyone else:
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/education/title-7/subtitle-1/7-120/

PP here. Thanks for posting that... interesting link. Looks like it holds weight for grades K-2 but leaves a bit of wiggle room for the principal. Interesting that it's state level and has a clause to forbid a county board from setting their own policy.

[Anonymous]

My loose understanding is that you can insist for K and then its up to them, depending on how it was for that year in the classroom for the twins and the teacher and everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Non snarky question- outside of K, why would you want them to be in the same class?

[Anonymous]

I have 2 sets of friends with twins, both in moco. One spilt them up in K and one kept them together in K and split for 1st.

[Anonymous]

We kept ours together in MoCo until second grade. The school left it up to us.

[Anonymous]

Are they Siamese twins? Otherwise, unclench OP and treat them like two separate people.

[Anonymous]

As a parent of twins, I feel they are far better off being in different classrooms. Mine have been separated since K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are they Siamese twins? Otherwise, unclench OP and treat them like two separate people.

Yup.

[Anonymous]

There's a set of twins in my DC's 4th grade class. Evidently they band together a bit and make things unpleasant. Can't figure out why the parents would want it that way -- school definitely separates by default.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- I found it in case its helpful to anyone else:
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/education/title-7/subtitle-1/7-120/

Thanks for this OP. I will be keeping my twins together in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a set of twins in my DC's 4th grade class. Evidently they band together a bit and make things unpleasant. Can't figure out why the parents would want it that way -- school definitely separates by default.

You know all twins are different, right? My girls thrive together in school and do not make trouble. They save all of the fighting and bad attitudes for home!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a set of twins in my DC's 4th grade class. Evidently they band together a bit and make things unpleasant. Can't figure out why the parents would want it that way -- school definitely separates by default.

You know all twins are different, right? My girls thrive together in school and do not make trouble. They save all of the fighting and bad attitudes for home!

I can assure you that you don’t know this for sure. Kids do and say different things in front of adults than they do at lunch, recess, work groups, etc...