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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kind of an odd situation but a new teacher doesn't understand a 504 and the school won't really intervene.

Is there a person at MCPS who can be helpful here?

If you had to contact outside help (advocate or attorney), do you have recommendations? Hoping it doesn't get that far but just in case.
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You need to give more details about “the school won’t intervene”, exactly what the issue is, and how/who you have already contacted. If you haven’t worked the chain inside the school, it’s too soon to go outside the school.

We are on day 6 and you say this is a new teacher. It seems to me me that there is likely just a delay in communication about the 504 and/or the new teacher doesn’t understand how to implement the specific accommodation. At my high school the counselors have been focused on first week schedule issues and only some of them have sent out 504 info to teachers.

Counselor is in charge of 504s.
Department head (resource teacher) is in charge of new teacher.
There is an assistant principal over each department (including counseling).
1. Email both counselor and resource teacher about the concern.
2. Follow up with counselor, who is responsible for 504, to see if issue is resolved. They may need to talk to student or observe to see what’s happening.
3. If counselor or resource teacher ignore or give unacceptable response, escalate email chain and include supervising administrator.
4. If that is still not working, escalate to principal and ask for meeting with all parties to resolve.

Only after this point would I try to take it up out side the school. If you skip the internal steps, they are just going to send your concern back to the school.[/quote]

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