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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Build relationships and engage the community - This will NEVER happen till face to face meetings with parents and families take place.  You can grocery shop now without a mask but a parent cannot give in person testimony at a Board of Education meeting.  There’s no longer a Maryland state of emergency but parents still can only meet for IEP meetings online. MCPS is loosing credibility with their bs to exclude families from the conversations that affect their children.[/quote]

Even with face to face meetings, how does that help if they will not work with families and kids to actually create an IEP to meet the kids actual needs and diagnosis (vs. their educational diagnosis) and implement the plans.  People are acting like these are new issues and it as no different than pre-covid in person.  I would have preferred an online IEP meeting as we weren't allow any input and the IEP didn't reflect my child's needs.  Face to face vs. online isn't going to change anything.  Them hiring more special education teachers, more SLP's, OT's, PT's and paraprofessionals with the extra money is what is needed.[/quote]

Tell me this - When did MCPS stop writing the IEP at an IEP meeting?  That seems like that should be the actual point of the meeting, to collaborate, discuss, and actually write the IEP.  This year, we met and had a discussion in which everything we wanted was shut down and no explanation as to why.  The document that came home afterwards might as well have been locked in before the IEP meeting.

We have asked the State of Maryland to investigate because even the PWN paperwork doesn’t match the IEP. There also was a rushed to deny ESY and Compensatory Services.  In our opinion problems for students with disabilities have been bad in the past but MCPS this year hit an all time low when students with disabilities needed support the most.

Where MCPS puts funding will show Dr. McNight’s priorities.  Special education deserves more attention to help kids recover from a lost year that many will never fully recover.[/quote]

That is completely normal and nothing to do with covid.  Ours were written the day before.  Our original one made zero sense and was clearly recycled from another child as it had another child's first name on it as well.  They always shut down everything we said and refused to do things like speak with our private providers and work with us on things like sending the work home that doesn't get done in school if child needs extra help.  Really simple things.  So, for us, online was better as we could monitor things and provide the needed support.  Everyone keeps blaming covid for special education issues but it has nothing to do with covid except with covid and kids home you can now see the flaws in it vs at school you couldn't see it.  Even when you go back in person, it isn't going to be any better and if you have a child with SN you either have to hire an advocate and stay on top of it to make sure your child is getting what they need, or pay for private tutors, evaluations and therapists (and supplement yourself) or both.  Don't wait for MCPS to help your child as they aren't going to except in rare situations and its on you as a parent to do it.  In ES, we only had one decent teacher who actually tried to support and understand our child.  That's pretty sad.

Dr. McNight haas many issues to fix.  Even if she makes it a priority, its not going to happen overnight.[/quote]

Oh, should say they NEVER write the IEP at the IEP meeting.  They write it in advanced, send it to you if you are lucky the day before, and expect you to 100% agree.  Or, that was our experience.  We never signed ours as we never agreed and nothing was done to fix it or work with us.[/quote]

Would you mind saying the school?  I just thought our Special Education Resource Teacher was incompetent at reading a calendar.  Documents are supposed to arrive to parents 5 business days before the IEP meeting.  Ours doesn’t put it into the mail until then so of course we receive them late.

With all the shell games to exclude parents from participating in IEP process, it makes me worry how my child will be treated during in person instruction.  Mean, nasty, deceitful, and liars don’t make good role models for children.  It doesn’t build trust with community members.[/quote]

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