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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's a pain in the ass that requires extra work, so not everybody can be accommodated. [/quote]

This is the real reason. [/quote]

But how is it extra work? There is a teacher at my kids’ school whose sole job is to do these type of assessments and work with kids who have special needs. It’s her job.[/quote]

Special Education Teachers have been swapped out for Para Educators and their educational training is not the same. A Para Educator only needs a high school diploma. Most Para Educators are just babysitters and don’t teach any skills.

MCPS has come up with a discriminatory model where to access to a Special Educator, students have to drop a credit period and take a Resource Class. Even though these classes are presented at IEP teams that they are General Ed classes, the number of students with disabilities show that the placement is a pull out class for students with disabilities. MCPS is not meeting Federal standards for teaching students in the least restrictive environment, especially when students in these Resource Classes are calculated. [/quote]

Why isn’t there a lawsuit? I’m not litigious generally, but it’s shameful to deprive kids of the educational support they need.[/quote]

Lawsuits against MCPS cost families $35,000 to $75,000. Realize families who fight either through Due Process or Civil Suits are up against a government agency that has unlimited financial resources for the legal fight. The MCPS legal fees do not come out of the school budget, they come out of the Montgomery County Government budget. It’s a truly lopsided fight in which families are at a disadvantage.

Most families with resources have to make a financial choice to either pay for private services to meet their child’s needs or pay to fight MCPS. The children of parents with a lack of financial resources and a lack of understanding of the laws protecting students with disabilities are truly left behind. MCPS Special Educational Services is a dysfunctional and often a deceptive process that ultimately has the goal to deny services to students.  Parents are dragged to meetings after meetings and if an IEP is actually written, often schools drop the ball for the implementation.

It is something that would be a great Netflix documentary or 60 minutes expose because people don’t know how broken public education is till they are stuck in the muck with MCPS for a child with disabilities.[/quote]

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