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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What did such medically fragile students do before COVID?[/quote]

As the parent of a very medically fragile child before COVID, I can tell you that we dealt with an Interim Instructional Service program that didn't work at all.  We had new teachers all the time.  The teachers came a few hours a week with no access to the gen ed curriculum, and they changed all the time.  Each new teacher had to then be reintroduced to my kid and his specific needs.

The program also had a great deal of difficulty understanding the fact that my medically fragile kid was in fact medically fragile, and that things like visits with specialists who scheduled months in advance took precedence over IIS sessions.  I had someone complain when I said we couldn't do sessions on Tuesdays because he had a weekly infusion of an experimental drug that had to be done over many hours in the hospital, that we weren't being flexible enough.

For us, homeschooling was the answer.  I think that one solution here would be for MCPS to provide support for homeschooling for kids who have established medical issues that prevent school attendance.  Other states have homeschooling scholarships that pay for curriculum, and online classes from providers who have worked out the kinks, and kids who receive those scholarships and qualify via an IEP are able to receive a full array of related services from itinerant providers.  A similar model would make sense in MCPS.  
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