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[quote=Anonymous]I have a child with special needs and she's correct that children with special needs are in public school because privates don't want them and only publics have the government support to implement IEPs and provide services and accommodations. The rest is just heinous judgment on her part, which is not kind or true because most families do try to address their children's issues, instead of ignoring them.

My children's public school classes have been disrupted multiple times by kids with severe behavioral issues, particularly in elementary, when families are still struggling to figure out diagnoses and treatments. By middle school, the problems subside because these families either figure out what combination of meds work, or their child is so severely impacted that they end up needing special schools.

My child with disabilities benefited from MCPS's gifted, talented and learning disabled program, a unique program that supports children with IEPs as well as high IQs - usually the high-functioning ADHD/ASD types. I can't say enough good things about it. He was offered amazing speech therapy services in elementary, and most years of his school career, had a kind and well-meaning IEP team. Sometimes they were even helpful! :-)

So her judgment passed on parents is way out of line, but it's true there are some very disruptive kids in schools these days.

I still kept all my kids in public. MCPS has excellent advanced tracking, tons of AP/dual enrollment/IB course offerings depending on which high school cluster you're in, and one of my kids was in a magnet. It's one of the better tax-payer-funded systems.
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