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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone heard anything about the 504 process changing for next year? [/quote]

I thought it might be that they would consider all children as having ADHD and make that the norm. Most kids these days have these accommodations, so it would be easier to just treat everyone the same.[/quote]
Most kids do not really have ADHD.

-- Parent of kid with actual ADHD[/quote]

10% of students in MCPS receive 504 /IEP services for a range of disabilities. So no everyone doesn’t have ADHD. [/quote]

It's much higher than 10% at the wealthier schools where people can afford a private diagnosis.[/quote]

This is an educational myth - in MCPS, 8.5% of kids in BCC are receiving special education, at Whitman it's 10%.  Most MCPS schools are btwn 5-15% special ed and the less wealthy schools tend to be on the higher side of that, which is unsurprising when you consider the many ways environment contributes to need and the fact that, probably, wealthy parents are more likely to have the means to opt out.

Rockville HS (not wealthy) has the highest SPED rate at 18.7% but it has a K-12 Autism program and K-12 Deaf/HoH program so that probs skews their numbers.

As a parent of an ADHD kid, what I see is that wealthy parents who can pay for private diagnosis often get an accurate ADHD diagnosis, while poorer kids who depend on the public school system for evaluation are often mislabeled as behavior/emotional problems and their ADHD or learning disability is missed, so both the wealthy and poor kids get into the sped system, but the wealthy kids are more likely to get what they need. [/quote]

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