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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP- I am an elementary teacher and do not work in LFI, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It used to be that students that needed over 15 hours a day of sped services, were placed in a program. Now you have to truly fail out of school to be placed in a program. LFI kids are very impacted and most are not diploma bound. I would definitely find out how many students are in current LFI programs because often they are called the “dumping grounds” for the county. Just do your research.[/quote]

Learning Center is also known as a dumping ground, but at least usually in LFI, even though the kids are heavily impacted, you are working more with parents who know their kid is heavily impacted and are in less denial about the severity of the deficits and more willing to meet their child where they are vs. where they wish they were. Some of the kids in Learning Centers should be in LFI (or even SCB) but their parents refused to sign the paperwork to put them on certificate track and MCPS refused to fight them, so the spread of abilities and modifications needed is wider and there's more stress in keeping up a charade that the Learning Center placement might just be one little bump on Larlo's road to medical school. Learning Center is also where the kids with significant behavior problems who need a self-contained class but are academically too below grade level for SESES end up.

I would definitely go with LFI over Learning Center.[/quote]

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