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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted previously, but feel like I should offer more specific information.  My child is on an IEP, which entitles him to a prompt to turn in assignments.  For the past 3 years, I have been fighting tooth and nail with the school about the failure to prompt him.  He has completed assignments (in class) that just sit there, and he gets no prompt, and teachers refuse to take them the next day.  I have also been fighting to get an accommodation added to turn things in one day late. ACPS has been awful and fought these very basic things.  Teachers and administrators do not answer my emails asking for meetings - they just don't respond.

Meanwhile, I have sent emails to the principals of two FCPS schools, asking how my son's accommodations would be implemented if we moved.  Both have returned my calls to discuss.  We don't live there - yet - my child does not attend there, yet they have been more responsive than ACPS.[/quote]

I hear this from a lot of parents of kids with IEPs, special ed etc. It's not legal but ACPS knows that it's expensive for parents to sue so they can get away with it. The School Board Chair Megan Alderton is a former special ed teacher. She sends her kids to private.

Kids who are neurotypical are also ignored. At my child's ACPS ES school, a teacher, when asked for help, would respond that it wouldn't be equitable for them to help students. They also cite equity as the reason they don't even give the most basic of homework. They were backed up by our elementary schools principal. My child's math teacher's standard response to in class questions was "you must not have been paying attention, too bad". Also backed up by the principal.

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What school is this!? [/quote]

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