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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before you complain, have you ever been to one of these meetings? It’s structured information gathering, not information flow down. If you don’t like what’s happening in MCPS, go and give your input, rather than complain on an anonymous board.[/quote]

I’ve been to meetings in the past at the community level and special topics that impact my children. However, they mostly are BS without anything constructive being accomplished or followed up with.

Dr. McKnight has been in charge this entire school year. Her initial slogan was to put students first during her first 100 days as interim superintendent.[b] That slogan did nothing for students at the school level, especially for students with special needs[/b].[/quote]

I totally disagree.  She kept schools open despite the bullying from teachers, county exec and the covidians.  That is putting students first, especially those with special needs.  This along makes her my hero at least in the short term. [/quote]

Many schools were shuttered after winter break. That’s not keeping schools open for those families impacted by the closures. Many schools who had equally high percentage of cases remained open so yes, equity in MCPS is a problem.

As far as students with special needs, my child is due compensatory services that MCPS promised to provide at an IEP meeting.  We have been waiting for months for MCPS to initiate the services that would help my child regain skills he lost during online learning.  Dr. McKnight has done absolutely nothing to help students with disabilities during her interim position. In fact, key vacancies and core practices to provide roadblocks for students with disabilities crates systemic discrimination within MCPS that she is not addressing. [/quote]

by many you mean like 2-3 that had 5%+ infection rates?[/quote]

+1.  She didn't allow the irrational bullies to shut down the whole county for "two weeks" to "flatten the curve".  I guarantee you if that had happened we would have been fighting to get the MCPS BOE to open them well into March.  Instead we removed masks, which in an of itself is putting students first. 
And while I understand that services for SPED are still woeful, the 90% of non-sped students are finally getting the education they had taken from them in 2020/2021. [/quote]

So Dr. McKnight is a great leader if she underserves the needs of students with disabilities? You do realize meeting the needs of non-disabled students while not meeting the needs of students with disabilities is the very definition of discrimination on the basis of a disability. [/quote]

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