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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP here. Sorry I was much too vague. My job placement is not known at this point but will most likely be in montgomery county, but possibly pg or howard. I am not interested in an alll-white school. My child is not white. She has some academic challenges--slower to read, math is hard --and would benefit from a school where SN families feel supported in case in comes to an IEP or 504 plan in her future.[/quote]

[b]MCPS can be very ugly with special needs situations. If you think that your child would do OK with smaller classes but not a formal IEP then look at private options. If she needs an IEP or more specialized services I'd recommend looking at PG or Howard. Howard is out ranking MCPS academically now and provide mores services for differentiation such as special needs and GT in schools. PG has some good schools too though most of the people we know who live there opted for smaller private schools. I've heard that Fairfax and DC can be just as difficult but MCPS seems to take special joy in fighting legal battles rather than following IEPs.

If you come into MCPS try to get your child on an IEP in her existing school so you come in with one or get outside testing. Make sure to make your request for an IEP evaluation and team meeting in writing. Be ready to hire advocate. You may not need it right away but eventually you probably will need one. Someone described getting special needs services in MCPS to me as a roller coaster. One year you may get a great teacher and the school may cave in to give your child the services that they need. The next year you will have to fight for those services if your child made any progress. There is this up and down process where your child has to constantly fail to get the services they need to succeed. Its very damaging to the child and drives the parents crazy.  MCPS does not care about educating the "whole person" . [/quote][/b]

This is just the case for this person.  My child has an IEP and I've felt he has been offered more services than he has needed sometimes. I feel he is well supported in the school. We have never hired an advocate. My child is in an elementary school which is NOT in a W cluster.  He is in an elementary school in the Down County Consortium.  My child has had the same OT and Speech therapist since he was 3 and in preschool.  Now he is in 2nd grade.  So these 2 therapists really have the long term view of how far my child has come and exactly what he needs. I can't disagree with the previous poster more. This may be the case for the poster, but it is certainly not the case for every child or every school.  [/quote]

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