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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our family is new to Whitman this year with an IEP student. So far, school leadership and IEP teams have been remarkably disorganized, disengaged and overwhelmed. I've waited over a month to even get basic information from the advising team. Have other had this experience?

We had our IEP meeting and the school officials basically all said they barely know or spoke with our kid, and then pushed us through a bunch of "going through the motions" bureaucratic paperwork that barely checked the boxes. When asked about dyslexia support, they were openly hostile and resistant.

With all the recent MCPS challenges, very concerned our kid is going to get lost in a school that appears to be stumbling, when they really need ADHD and Dyslexia supports. Do parents just give up in MCPS or at Whitman, and have to pay for expensive private tutors? We're one of the very few non-wealthy families at the school, do they just assume everyone can pay for private tutoring, so the school then doesn't provide adequate in-school services?

Thanks for any guidance and/or more affordable local Bethesda ADHD or Dyslexia tutoring.[/quote]

MCPS doesn't provide adequate dyslexia supports to anyone.  It has nothing to do with being at Whitman or wealth.  You need private OG tutoring.  Once you get an IEP, you'll get x minutes of reading support each week.  But the "help" that MCPS provides is not really help at all.  It's not evidence based; it's not OG.  MCPS HS have around 2,000 students--no, school administrators are not going to know your kid.  For ADHD, look into an executive functioning coach.  You might be able to a resource class once you have an IEP but that will take the place of an elective.  Many people don't like that because they feel it shows weakness in the transcript and want to present the strongest academic load when it comes to college applications.[/quote]

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