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MCPS is very disappointing right now with its Covid response, but don't forget we're in a really mind-boggling, jaw-dropping surge and no one is handling this well anywhere in the world, except for the usual suspects of Japan, S. Korea and New Zealand. Some things should get better in periods of low Covid cases. Unfortunately, teachers quitting their jobs for less bullying, less stressful work, won't be easily replaced, so that consequence will last for quite a while.

That being said, I've always found that elementary is the worse period for behavioral issues: it's the time when a lot of parents don't yet have formal diagnoses for some types of ADHD and ASD - type problems, and when their kids don't yet have IEPs or accommodations that the school can implement.  My own child got an IEP in K for his ADHD, and he was not a pain in class (daydreamer type), but we've lived through some interesting years, pre-pandemic, with some students' behavioral issues! We're in the Bethesda/Chevy Chase cluster.
I can only imagine things have gotten worse now because the pandemic held up all kinds of progress on evaluations and therapies.

We found that middle and high school went much better, to be honest. The issues there are more in the overcrowding category, as well as dealing with the peer group, if your kids get in with the wrong crowd, but overall, academically, classrooms were never disrupted by too much mayhem.

This year my kids are in the Virtual Academy, so I can't comment on current teacher absences.
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