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[quote=Anonymous]I am an MCPS counselor (W school, not Westland). First, 504s are often treated like a consolation prize. They're not an IEP, which gives kids true interventions. A 504 Plan is only accommodations -- they don't cost the system money. It's a lot harder to "buy" an IEP than a 504. Second, I'm pretty appalled by the number of times I've seen kids without resources, or kids of color, get no accommodations at all because of "exclusionary factors" or because there's no pattern of strengths and weaknesses in their school-provided psych testing, while a kid with an expensive neuropsych report gets a number of supports. In practice, this means that an 8th grader who can't read may well get no interventions while his wealthier, white classmate magically gets a 504 Plan for his "mild" ADHD. That said, I rarely see 504 Plans followed with fidelity anyway. They're not worth much unless a kid is a good self-advocate. They don't immediately translate to extra time on standardized tests either -- those companies are onto parents, fortunately. Last, as a counselor, I think we need to be taking a good look at how we're writing and updating these plans. There's a lot of inconsistency, and counselors lose a lot of counseling time to paperwork. So I'm not at all opposed to 504 Plans for those who need them, but I'd like to see more equity across the board and more consistency in counselor and teacher approaches to them.[/quote]

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