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[quote=Anonymous]There needs to be an renewed commitment to ethics and honesty when dealing with students and families.  When an IEP team tells the following lies to families and refuse to show amendments to an IEP at an IEP meeting, the school team seriously damages collaboration with the family and denies educational opportunities for students with disabilities.  Things we have been told at IEP meetings that weren’t true:

Children with passing grades don’t qualify for an IEP.

Appendix D says if a child doesn’t have a disability that impacts decoding, then a child doesn’t qualify for text to speech as a classroom accommodation. (Appendix D only is for the Maryland State English Language Assessment).

IEP meetings can’t take place over the summer.

Your child can’t take an AP class because support is only offered in a non-Honors and non-AP class.

Your child is not disabled if he can earn As and Bs in an Honors/AP class.

Accommodations don’t have to be provided if a child doesn’t advocate for them in class.

Synergy is the most up to date grade book and the only one that counts since that is the report card grade.  Ignore the data points in Canvas.

We don’t believe a disability exists so we are not going to evaluate your child.  We will offer interventions as come back to look at the data. (aka Response to Intervention - not an appropriate method for many disabilities).

Finally, the PWN that comes after the meeting doesn’t reflect the discussion that took place.  Parent comments are misrepresented or absent altogether.  There’s no MCPS process for amending records.

Rebuilding trust and collaboration will need a major mindset change in how Special Education is managed in MCPS.

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