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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, and let's say my kid needs extra support to build his resume and pursue college-worthy extra-curriculars. Who pays for that? There are no MCPS funds or aides for that.  [/quote]

I'm the poster with the 18 year old ADHD/ASD son.

You do not understand where the line is. IEPs save students who would fail school without services and accommodations. Everything else is the parents' responsibility.

My child had an IEP until 12th grade. We spent thousands of dollars, OP, on neuropsychological evaluations and one-on-one tutors, to help our son understand his coursework. This was not on our public school to fix. It was on us. A neuropsych today at Stixrud's costs more than 5K. It's 8 hours of testing over two days. His specialized tutors cost $90/hr for writing and up to $350/hr for math (he also has dyscalculia, a specific learning disability in math).

We debated whether to hire the services of a private college counselor, specialized in learning disabilities, but ultimately decided it was too much and we could do the same ourselves. I helped him search for colleges, helped him figure out what he wanted to write in his essays, kept an eye on deadlines, sent his scores, reminded him to ask for letters of recommendations, checked his Common App for completion, filled out the FAFSA and CSS, etc...

All this is very often the parents' job. Where I live in Bethesda, every single student has a tutor at some point, either for remediation or acceleration or both. Every family helps their kid get ahead, in academics or extra-curriculars. Many families curate their children's list of extra-curriculars early on in elementary/middle school with a view to college admissions, since a lot of skills need to be built up for years to get to a recognized talent by high school: I will do this for my neurotypical younger child! This has nothing to do with special needs, but everything to do with the arms race that is our current college admissions system!

You have to do your job, OP. No one else is going to do for you. This has nothing to do with other students' disabilities and the services and accommodations that they were allowed to receive at school.

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